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LaRoacha · 06-12-2001, 06:01 PM

OK, Let’s see if any of you hardware guru’s can help me out with this. When I built my computer I used an Abit KT7A Raid motherboard. I intended to use a couple of nice IBM 20 gig drives in it as one logical 40 gig drive, but at the end, I got impatient and went to CompUSA and bought 2 Western Digital 20 gig drives. Right after that, I read somewhere on the net that my motherboard and WD drives didn’t get along well in a raid configuration. Well, I tried and tried to get it working in raid, but to no avail, so I just hooked up the 2 hardrives to one IDE channel and the DVD and CDRW to the other channel. To this day, the bios, nor windows seem to see the second hardrive, yet Ive had several programs that seem to see it, i.e. VIA bussmaster PCI IDE utility. What brings about my question today is, when I was installing Linux, the install program saw that 2nd drive and gave me the option to install to it. I did and the install program formatted the disk and did a successful install to it. After installation, which by the way required exactly “0” reboots, I then enter the OS and dicked around with it for about 2 hours, all the while thinking in the back of my head, what if the bios still refuses to see the 2nd disk when I reboot? Well, I finally went for it and rebooted and nothing I can do will get the bios to see it. I even unhooked every other drive i.e. CD DVD and the winME drive and just left the one with Linux on in and all I got was a no boot drive available error.
Linux worked perfectly once I installed it with no errors of any kind occurring, so I know the drive works and all. Im kinda confused about this whole deal. Can anyone give me some guidance on this other than the typical “Reformat, Fdisk, et al? If not, I guess Ill just go out and buy another HD this weekend.

06-12-2001, 06:01 PM	#1
LaRoacha Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 3	Hardware GURU's, Help Pls. OK, Let’s see if any of you hardware guru’s can help me out with this. When I built my computer I used an Abit KT7A Raid motherboard. I intended to use a couple of nice IBM 20 gig drives in it as one logical 40 gig drive, but at the end, I got impatient and went to CompUSA and bought 2 Western Digital 20 gig drives. Right after that, I read somewhere on the net that my motherboard and WD drives didn’t get along well in a raid configuration. Well, I tried and tried to get it working in raid, but to no avail, so I just hooked up the 2 hardrives to one IDE channel and the DVD and CDRW to the other channel. To this day, the bios, nor windows seem to see the second hardrive, yet Ive had several programs that seem to see it, i.e. VIA bussmaster PCI IDE utility. What brings about my question today is, when I was installing Linux, the install program saw that 2nd drive and gave me the option to install to it. I did and the install program formatted the disk and did a successful install to it. After installation, which by the way required exactly “0” reboots, I then enter the OS and dicked around with it for about 2 hours, all the while thinking in the back of my head, what if the bios still refuses to see the 2nd disk when I reboot? Well, I finally went for it and rebooted and nothing I can do will get the bios to see it. I even unhooked every other drive i.e. CD DVD and the winME drive and just left the one with Linux on in and all I got was a no boot drive available error. Linux worked perfectly once I installed it with no errors of any kind occurring, so I know the drive works and all. Im kinda confused about this whole deal. Can anyone give me some guidance on this other than the typical “Reformat, Fdisk, et al? If not, I guess Ill just go out and buy another HD this weekend.