Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:06:40 -0700, Eric \"Shubes\" wrote
>>> Ironic that I can write to a drive on the second ide channel 
>>> even though bios doesn't see it.  But I could not figure out 
>>> how to get the installation on the second hard drive to boot.
>> The bios can see it all right w/out necessarily being able to boot 
>> from it. If you look at the IDE devices in your bios, I'm betting 
>> that they show up. That doesn't mean they're all bootable. Older 
>> BIOSs may not boot from anything other than the primary master.
> 
> No, bios cannot see it.  That is the strange and frustrating dilemma.
> It just does not show up there in the bios at all. 

An earlier version of the server I have at home had a BIOS that couldn't 
properly detect a driver larger than 8.4GB.  I had 2 60GB and 2 80GB 
drives in it.  The bios would see them as 8.4GB drives.  I used a floppy 
to boot the machine.  After Linux started loading, it detected the 
drives properly.

Here's another one for you.  I have one of those USB hard drives.  I 
plug it into my slackware 11 box, but can't mount it.  Lsusb shows the 
drive. However when I try mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/whatever I get an 
error message saying /dev/sda1 isn't a valid block device.  When I plug 
in my mp3 player and enter mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/whatever it's 
mounted and I can add files to or delete files from it.  Go figure.

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