9.04 can't find second hard drive.

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Accessys at smart.net wrote:
> 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

	Please tell use the type of motherboard you bought. The first special
priced mother board on the latest newegg flier is a xlt or like that and
these boards are BAD! So if you have one of those you need to get a much
better board.


73 Karl



> 
> 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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