topic Re: New Hard drive in Operating System - Linux

New Hard drive

Dan_320 — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:35:32 GMT

I have a computer that i have decided to add a new hard drive as the only hard drive in the machine. It is a 120GB Maxtar and I want to install Linux only onto it. after i plug it in, everything seems to work fine, i will put the cd in and it will run through the whole Linux install cycle, but after i restart it will not work at all. a friend of mine told me i might have to manually change the hard drive information as far as sectors and stuff like that in the bios, but i am not to sure how to go about doing that. am i on the right track or not? thanks in advance.

Re: New Hard drive

Ivajlo Yanakiev — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:43:30 GMT

Bios:
Go to HDD location nad set Auto for your.
Do not set manula any value.
If your disk and bios are good they will work.

Take one Knopix CD live or boot from install CD and try to mount your DISK.

Or you may have problem with boot manager.
Install reinstall Grub or Lilo.

Re: New Hard drive

Dan_320 — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:51:43 GMT

the hard drive came with a cd to help the instalation process but it says that it will only set the hard drive up for a type of windows. will that have any effect?

Re: New Hard drive

Ivajlo Yanakiev — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:00:28 GMT

I never had that :)
What kind of install make this CD.
How make up your disk ?
Frimware ?
or what ?

Re: New Hard drive

Ivajlo Yanakiev — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:03:09 GMT

Generaly you do not need any softwate for new disk. Linux cat take any IDE standart disk nad can work with it.
did you try to find some help on manufacturer SITE.
My be there are some linux tools for download.

Re: New Hard drive

Dan_320 — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:08:26 GMT

i will try that and see what happens. ill let you know.

thanks

Re: New Hard drive

NiCK_76 — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:43:30 GMT

Hi Dan,

It seems a hardware problem. Did your motherboard support 120G harddisk? Did your BIOS setting correctly?

NiCK

Re: New Hard drive

Dan_320 — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:55:33 GMT

how do i check to see if the motherboard will support a 120GB hard drive?

Re: New Hard drive

NiCK_76 — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:27:16 GMT

Offical website

Re: New Hard drive

Alessandro_66 — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:51:03 GMT

Hi Dan,

Which kind of HD do you have? Is it a SATA HD? Could you post the error you have during the boot phase of your PC?

Re: New Hard drive

Dan_320 — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:13:52 GMT

i have a maxtor ultra series 120 GB pata133 HDD.

Re: New Hard drive

NiCK_76 — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:26:43 GMT

Hi Dan,

Which distro are you using? Old version did not support SATA. You should loading driver before you install.
SATA controller vender should provide driver for linux. You should make a SATA controller driver disk for linux installation.
When you boot from linux install cd ,type "linux dd" for REDHAT linux or press F6 for SUSE linux to loading SATA contorller driver from driver disk.

NiCK

Re: New Hard drive

kcpant — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:38:37 GMT

Hi Nick,

He is saying PATA, not SATA, and there is no problem in setting up Linux distros on any PATA disk...