Not all IDE hard disks are detected by my BIOS

[Ryan Enge]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
>
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.

Ryan Enge
System Administrator
University of Victoria
Room: CLE D046 Phone: 472-5447 
Email: renge at uvic.ca