Hello, On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, James Hatridge wrote:
On Sunday 14 June 2009 09:08:19 Per Jessen wrote:
James Hatridge wrote:
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.
I doubt that'll help. The next lower limit I know of below 1TB is 137GB (128 * 2^30 B / GiBiBytes). And I use 4 IDE drives over that up to 500 GB on a MoBo from 2000 (BIOS Release: 11/17/99!), AMD-756 [Viper] IDE controller. The BIOS shows the drives as 136GB, but no problems under Linux (haven't used Windows with those drives though). Next problematic size I know of is at 2 TiBiB. What your problem might be, is that your drive is (un)jumpered to use SATA 2.0 / 3 GBit/s Mode but your controller / BIOS can't handle that. Have a look at the jumpers, usually there is one to set the drive to SATA1 / 1.5 GBit/s mode. Do you happen to have one of the controllers mentioned in this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#SATA_1.5_Gbit.2Fs_and_SATA_3_Gbit.2Fs HTH, -dnh -- SIG kill(ed) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org