Patrick Olson wrote: > > Jumping in the middle here, so pardon me if I'm way off. Is your Seagate > ST33210A an IDE drive?
Yes > > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > > What do you mean by "using the second"? > > > > I mean the second, Ramdisk, diskette. > > You mean the disk it asks for after you boot the 'rescue" disk, right? That's correct > > > I tried re-running it three times. I'm reluctant to report a bug on > > Debian 1.0 > > software, though. > > Debian 1.0? I'm going to assume you mean 2.0, in which case I have the > same disks... No, I labeled them Debian 1.0 when I created them. I might have mislabeled them, though. > > > > What does dmesg report? > > Your dmesg report doesn't mention /dev/hdd or the Seagate drive at all. I > think that is the problem right there. /dev/hdd would be secondary slave > IDE I think. Can anything (maybe the BIOS) find the drive? No, I see that the dmesg report doesn't see the drive, and the BIOS doesn't detect it, either. I also notice that the HDD light on my generic (Kenitec) case stays constantly lit when the new drive is installed. I don't know what to do about it, though. > > If you can run without the CD-ROM temporarily, how about setting the > Seagate as primary slave in place of the CD-ROM which is now /dev/hdb I'll give that a try - I seldom use the CD anyway (sounds not working either). > > Again, I'm sorry if I'm way off on this, I just finally saw something I > thought I might be able to answer. Thanks for your response. -- ----------------------------------------- Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members.
