9.04 can't find second hard drive.

[Mark Haney]

Accessys at smart.net wrote:
> that was my guess, but was hoping against hope that some guru would
> have a brialliant idea that would cover something I overlooked...
> 
> pretty much confirmed my best guess.
> 
> thanks
> Bob


Let me get this straight.  You replaced darn near everything in the
system between upgrading to a SATA drive and 9.04, correct?  So the old
drive isn't seen by the new MB's BIOS, also correct?  Have you put that
drive into another system to see if IT can find it?

I'm not convince it's a BIOS problem, has anyone thought the drive might
have failed?  If there was static discharge, for example, it could have
fried the controller on the drive and therefore it won't respond to BIOS
requests so the BIOS doesn't 'see' it.

Let's not jump the gun and determine it's the BIOS.  I've rarely ever
seen BIOS fail like that.  Typically it either works or doesn't.




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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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