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

[Tim Watts]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 4:04 pm, Sean C. McCord wrote:

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> a) the drive is SATAII but the controller is SATAI _and_ they have the
> compatibility probem.  To fix this tae a look and see if there is a
> jumper n the drive to clip to "150" or be compatibile with SATAI.

BINGO! Thanks Sean.

So I guess by setting this jumper I'm bopping the thru put down a bit? I can 
live with that I think. This is just for personal use mainly.

> b) the controller firmware or BIOS doesn't support drives that large.
> In this case, obviously, see if there is a firmware or BIOS upgrade.
>
> > 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.
>
> Nope.  That would be exactly the expected behaviour.
>
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