9.04 can't find second hard drive.

[Mark Haney]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> That said, I do think, if one is available, I would consider doing it.
>> However, after following the thread a little longer (and ignoring Karl's
>> silly posts) I still think the drive should be tested on a known working
>>  IDE machine to make sure the drive is still good.
> 
>> To me, upgrading the BIOS is too risky unless we know for sure the IDE
>> drive is functional.  If it's not, then a BIOS upgrade would be
>> pointless and would risk the MB to no real purpose.
> 
> 
> 
> 	Mark if were able to read, too bad, you would know the guy has a brand
> new mother board with a band new BIOS software. Why change that? It
> works on everything except an old, maybe not working IDE hard drive.


What part of my post didn't you understand?  Did you even bother to READ
the bloody thing?  No.  I stated,

> To me, upgrading the BIOS is too risky unless we know for sure the IDE
>>> drive is functional.  If it's not, then a BIOS upgrade would be
>>> pointless and would risk the MB to no real purpose.

And yes, I'm aware it's a NEW motherboard, but haven't you ever received
a new device (wireless router, mp3 player, motherboard) that has a new
BIOS or firmware version that is buggy?  Never?  You are lucky, then.
Buggy BIOS does happen on new motherboards.

What YOU are advocating is not even bothering with determining if the
old drive is bad or not.  And I say that's ridiculous.  If you don't
want to give the helpful advice then I politely ask you to shut up.  If
your advice is to ignore the problem, then don't post to this list, it
wastes everyone's bandwidth.

As for me, I would prefer to find out for certain if the drive is bad
first, and if not, then determine the risk/reward of flashing the BIOS,
IF A NEW VERSION IS EVEN AVAILABLE.  If the MB has an IDE controller it
should recognize all IDE devices.  If it doesn't, then either the device
is bad or the BIOS is bad.  I don't see it that the BIOS ignores IDE
hard drives, or certain types.  IDE is IDE.  The BIOS /shouldn't/ care
if it's a CDROM/DVD drive or a HDD.  The last time I saw a BIOS like
that was back in the day when multi-GB HDDs were just made available and
certain BIOS's couldn't handle the addressing of large drives.  I rather
 doubt that's the issue here.





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Mark Haney
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