9.04 can't find second hard drive.

[Accessys@smart.net]

again I agree. have never seen a bad BIOS that couldn't detect.

may have damaged the drive though although I was careful about static.

under certain circumstances I can hear the drive "seeking"

but it is just sitting there running.

Bob

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Mark Haney wrote:

> 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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