Not all IDE hard disks are detected by my BIOS
Paul Smith
phhs80 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 18:35:50 UTC 2006
On 8/18/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> 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?
> >
> > Right. But that doesn't say that that the drives are on the connections
> > where the kernel says there are no drives. The drives are connected
> > elsewhere, where the kernel reports them to be. Other connections may be
> > unused.
> >
> One point to keep in mind - it is the BIOS, and not the kernel that
> is generating the messages. It sounds like the BIOS is set to check
> for drives on all the IDE interfaces every time it boots, and not
> all interfaces have drives on them. There is nothing wrong with
> this. I normally turn this off, and set the drive types in the BIOS,
> but I also know to go into the BIOS and change things if I change
> drives.
>
> One other thing to keep in mind is that we do not know if there are
> really 3 IDE drives. From what the OP has said, I am not sure how
> much he really knows about his hardware. It would be interesting to
> see the output of "fdisk -l" when run as root. This would tell us
> both how many driver there are, and what interfaces they are on.
OK, the result of 'fdisk -l' is:
# /sbin/fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3187 25599546 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 3188 3200 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3201 14593 91514272+ 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/hdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 765 9964 73899000 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 765 904 1124518+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb6 905 9964 72774418+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hde: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 10000 80324968+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde2 10001 19457 75963352+ 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/dm-0: 92.5 GB, 92576677888 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11255 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Paul
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