Jude DaShiell wrote: > Why won't debian wheezy netinst recognize my Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500gb > hard drive automatically? > Since automatic recognition fails, which if any driver is installed that I > can select and get the drive partitioned and formatted and finish a debian > installation? It seems very unusual that such a popular drive such as the Seagate Baracuda series would be a problem. I have several of those on my systems without trouble. More than likely if there is a problem it is in the SATA device controller on your motherboard. I would remove and reconnect all of the disk connections and verify that they are okay. A bad SATA cable connector has been the source of problems more than once on this mailing list. If your motherboard has multiple SATA controllers or connectors then I would try a different one. I would boot a live disk and then run 'lspci' and look to see what SATA controller is being used and then search for issues concerning it. Also during a live cd boot you should be able to query the drive and prove that it is working. Or not working. Because it is possible that you are simply suffering from a hardware problem and not a software problem. Bob
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