Re: Strange case of disappearing hard disk
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 12:46 pm, csj wrote:
> I have a computer with a motherboard with a SiS 735 chipset. It has two
> hard disks on the primary ide channel, a 20GB FUJITSU MPF3204AT (hda,
> master, UDMA 66) and a 60GB MAXTOR 4K060H3 (UDMA 100). Grub is
> installed on both disks, but I set the computer to boot from hda.
>
> The strange thing is that sometimes when I reboot, the Fujitsu drive
> appears to disappear. The drive is identified by the bios. But on
> boot-up a message appears that the drive's boot record could not be
> found, and indeed I can't boot from the drive. I have to power down
> completely before I can boot again into that drive (I can boot from the
> CDROM drives and hdb)
>
> Does anybody have any idea what's going wrong?
>
older kernels don't have udma support. what kernel version are you using?
i've also read a rumor somewhere that all hd devices in a system have to be
udma compatible, as in all or nothing, and that older model cd-r's can be
problematic. again, it's a rumor, but maybe it gives you something to work
with.
ben
ben
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