9.04 can't find second hard drive.

[Accessys@smart.net]

thanks.

steps taken since this thread has started and my proposed future
steps.
I've had bad Motherboards and in fact this is a 2nd motherboard at the
same time, the first one was bad out of the box and would never load
the OS

but I have also totally botched a BIOS and am very very careful when
messing with the BIOS.

 . I have ordered an external hard drive housing from NewEgg and it
was shipped this morning so I will probably wait.  until it arrives
and check that the HDD is functional before doing anything additional.

. if the HDD is functional then I will just use it as an external HDD.
. if it is non functional then I have lost nothing and have risked but
a few bucks for an external HDD box, which I can use with some other
HDD's lying around so no major loss.


system is working otherwise so if it is non critical I am reluctant to
mess with it.

thanks for all the help, will get back when the external enclosure
arrives.

Bob






On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Mark Haney wrote:

> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> .
> >
> >> 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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