Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)
El 2012-04-08 a las 20:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió:
(resending to the list)
> On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am
>>> switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a
>>> long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is
>>> that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard drive. A second try usually
>>> fixed the problem. It has an Intel D865PERL mother board, a P4 2.4 GHZ
>>> processor and 512 MB DDR 400 ram. I just upgraded the BIOS to the latest
>>> version.
>>>
>> (...)
>>
>> A quick Google search points to a known problem for that board:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en#hl=en&complete=0&site=webhp&q=Intel+D865PERL+hard+disk+boot&oq=Intel+D865PERL+hard+disk+boot&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=serp.3...2893l5210l0l5434l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.pfwc.&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=43704773c80105b2&biw=1280&bih=888
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f15/intel-d865perl-wont-boot-sometimes-25259.html
>>
>> I would contact Intel tech support and ask them for a fix to this.
>>
>>
> I finally fudged things. I set the bios so that it recognized the cdrom
> and installed Debian Linux. I then rebooted, F2ed to the bios and
> changed it so that it could find the hard drive. That worked. Since I
> don't have to boot to the cdrom very often I can live with it. I'm
> tired of fooling with the problem.
>
> Gary R.
Mmm, is the CD-ROM unit still visible/accessible within the OS? If
not, you can try to connect it to port IDE1 (same as the hard disk) as
slave, that could make a difference (buy a longer IDE cable if the
devices are separated enough) or extract the optical unit and use it
with an external USB case.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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