trouble adding another harddrive.
Kim Briggs
patiodragon at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 23:25:49 UTC 2008
On 9/13/08, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> lists wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i want to add another harddrive, but if i do it ubuntu refuse to start. :(
> >
> > i have 2x 120 GB IDE drive (/dev/sda & /dev/sdb).
> >
> > now i want to add a 320 GB SATA drive but i see that the newly installed
> > drive is /dev/sda.
> >
> > how do i fix this?
> >
> > greets
> >
> >
> You have an old BIOS and it can't handle a SATA hard drive. My
> suggestion is to put it all on the 380 GB SATA drive and then unplug the
> two 120 GB drives. I did this with my old BIOS and now it is fine :-)
>
>
> Karl
>
>
My experience with maybe not as old of a motherboard: It mattered
what order the drives where on the cable. Really, that was the only
thing that made it work. The primary hard drive had to be first. If
I switched them... blackness.
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