On Tue,05.Aug.08, 17:53:05, Adam Hardy wrote: > Andrei Popescu on 05/08/08 17:22, wrote: >> On Tue,05.Aug.08, 15:51:44, Adam Hardy wrote: >>> I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them into >>> another with a similar 500MHz CPU and mobo, but it hasn't worked out >>> smoothly. >>> >>> The first drive is 40Gb and seems fine, but the second, a 750Gb drive, >>> has a partition that won't mount. In fact there is also a partition on >>> the first drive that's not mounting. But linux loads. >> >> How old is that mobo anyway? 750 GB might be just a bit too much for it. > > Argh! Well, I don't really know anymore - probably 1998. So 10 years, +/- 2 > years. But then, the other mobo was old too. Maybe just not quite as old. > Should I be checking on a hardware compatibility list at Seagate? You could try different options for the drive parameters in BIOS (lba, CHS, ...) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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