On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 at 11:34am, Dave wrote > Thanks for all the discussion, but keyboard is not the issue. > > I guess I should edit the bios settings and look for a way to tell it "hey, > you've only got one disk now, be happy." All Dell desktops I've dealt with (including the Precision T3400 I use now) require you to go into the BIOS and explicitly tell you which busses (IDE before, SATA now) have disks attached to them. If you don't tell it about a disk you do have, the disk won't appear to the OS. And if you do tell it about a disk you don't have, then the boot will hang complaining about a missing disk. It's asinine and I've never seen any other BIOS like it. But it's consistent. I've never dealt with Dell's server hardware, so I have on idea if they do the same thing there (dear God I hope not). In any case, yes, you must go into the BIOS and explicitly enumerate your disks there. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF