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On Sunday 14 June 2009, James Hatridge wrote:
HI Per,
On Sunday 14 June 2009 09:08:19 Per Jessen wrote:
James Hatridge wrote:
Hi all,
I got a Hitachi 1TB hd last week. I could not get my system to see it.
Hi Jim - _how_ was it not seen? Did the BIOS not recognize it?
I'm sure that the motherboard is working, I moved the other hds around and I could see that the system at boot was finding the new hd. But it would skip it.
Okay, your BIOS skips it - then my guess is that it is too big although I didn't think there was any special BIOS limit around the Terabyte level.
During the boot the system would find the first 3 disks and then wait for 30-60 seconds. Then it would go on with the boot. I changed the cables around making the new disk #3 and my older disk #4. When I booted then it stopped at #3 for 30-60 seconds then skipped to #4 and found my old disk at #4. So I then had disks at #1,#2, and #4.
I wonder about the disk being too big because the MB is about 3 years old and back then there was nothing bigger than about 500gb.
I think I'll return it and get a little smaller one, say 600-750gb.
Silly question.. Did you swap cables or just the drive? Mike -- Powered by SuSE 11.0 Kernel 2.6.25 KDE 3.5 Kmail 1.9 10:22am up 2 days 1:44, 3 users, load average: 2.01, 2.11, 2.22 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org