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mtmccabe

2005-12-04, 06:00 PM CST

Hi,
I have installed a second Hard Drive on my Dell. Windows Disk Manager sees the drive but the Dell BIOS doesn't . The second drive is SATA and I am planning on putting FC4 on it.
Any help I what I can do to get the BIOS to see this second drive?

Marius

2005-12-05, 06:42 AM CST

you can install new bios if you need it, it can be done directly to chip. I hear people doing it in my university. Maybe you just need to change wich disk is master

mtmccabe

2005-12-05, 06:44 AM CST

I thought SATA drives didn't have a master or slave

marshliz

2006-01-12, 12:38 PM CST

I have a similar problem. I have Fedora Core 4 on Dell Poweredge 1800 wich has two scsi disk but Fedora only see the first. In /dev only show sda and all the partitions but not sdb

When begin the server it show the next message:
"1 logic disk support by an adapter
1 logic disk support by BIOS"

Somebody can help me please?

than you