Not all IDE hard disks are detected by my BIOS

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 17:02:04 UTC 2006


On 8/18/06, Ryan Enge <renge at uvic.ca> wrote:
> > At boot time, my new BIOS is unable to detect 2 of my 3 IDE hard
> > disks. However, I can access to all of them from FC5. Is there
> > something that I can do to have the BIOS detecting all my IDE hard
> > disks?
> >
> I would check that you have the jumpers set correctly on the hard
> drives. I had an issue with a Western Digital drive that I had set to
> slave when it was actually the master and the BIOS would not pick it up.
> I am assuming these are PATA not SATA drives.

Thanks, Ryan and Tony. If the hard drives were not correctly connected
I would not be able to boot in them, is not it?

Paul




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