[ale] Hardware question: BIOS not seeing my 500GB SATA for Kubuntu install

[James Sumners]

Best Buy sells SCSI drives? You must have a special Best Buy near you,
because they don't even list SCSI hard drives as being available on
their website.

Since you mentioned the presence of jumpers, I'm going to assume you
are talking about EIDE hard drives. If that is the case, then you will
be MUCH better off by setting the jumpers appropriately. Cable select
just doesn't work 9 times out of 10. Set a master and a slave via
jumper settings. I bet that solves your problem.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm trying to replace a fried 120GB drive with a 500GB drive on a system I
> bought from Monarch circa 2004. However, the BIOS screen doesn't see the
> drive at all (and, of course, the Kubuntu installer doesn't either).
>
> By "doesn't see it" I mean that as the system boots and scans for SCSI
> devices, I hit the Tab key to enter the RAID User Screen and when it
> displays, both channels show "No Drive". I have it connected same way the
> 120GB drive was (power & data cables); but no jumpers as none of them seem
> appropriate for my needs according to the manual.
>
> Both drives are WD models. I've already exchanged the drive once at Best Buys
> so I have a hard time believing I got 2 bad devices in a row. Plus they were
> able to see it at the store when mounted in their USB harness.
>
> Is it possible that the drive is just too big for the BIOS to handle? Even if
> so, I would think that at least it could detect its presense.
>
> Any ideas what's going on?
>
> Thanks for your time.



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