Secondary Primary does not show up.
I have been researching disaster and recovery strategies and a poster offered me advice to which I thought was invaluable. You can find the reference below:
link So I proceeded to follow out the posters plans. I bought a second HD and installed it on a secondary IDE bus that was available. Since this is the only drive on the bus I configured the HD to be primary or a Master. Its a Western Digital so I removed the jumpers accordingly. However said HD does not show up in the BIOS at all. It should show up as Secondary primary drive = WD(serial number.) Everything in BIOS is set to AUTO The BIOS is an American Megatrends. The DEL button enters setup. |
Are you sure that it's connected to the right cable connector? What if you use CS (cable select) instead of Master? Is the cable properly plugged in on both ends? Did you by any chance forget to connect the power cable?
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Agreed - IMHO these days it always makes sense to use the "80 ribbon" cable and cable select.
Saves all these sort of issues. |
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Could you post the output from this command: lspci ------------------- Steve Stites |
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My apologies for not mentioning this info in my original post. |
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output for lspci Code:
[root@liquidvibration3 lib]# /sbin/lspci |
lspci reports the controller as SATA. Are both of the hard drives also SATA?
---------------------- Steve Stites |
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As suggested, try Cable Select. Cable Select automatically deals with the Master vs Slave thing so you can never get it wrong. Have you checked your BIOS whether all the settings are correct? I know you selected "Auto" but maybe you should try explicitly setting IDE instead. If that doesn't work, try swapping out your functional drive and replace it with the new one. If it still doesn't get detected, it may simply be a bad drive. |
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I'll update you all as how things went. |
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Any who, I figure the best course of action now is to buy an external HD/USB casing and try that way instead. It would make less down time if I just dd to the external usb/hd. No need to fiddle with cables etc. But I would like to thank people on here for helping me out. As always your help in this matter has been invaluable to me and the reason why Linux is just so great! Thanks again :) |
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