[CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

Jimmy Bradley wrote:
>      This isn't specifically about cent os, but I am running cent os on
> this machine. I've got a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop pc. I've tried on a
> number of occasions to put a second hard drive in the machine, but I
> can't get the machine to recognize the second drive in BIOS. I'm going
> to try and keep this short and sweet. I've tried all that I know to try.
> I've set the jumpers on the drives to master and slave, I've tried
> setting the jumpers to cable select. I've changed the IDE ribbon cable.
> As far as I know, I've done all the trouble shooting steps that you'd do
> when having this problem.
>      The only conclusion I can come up with, is that it's the BIOS. The
> one thing I haven't done is flash the BIOS, and I'm reluctant to do
> that. One other thing that I did try, was on the secondary IDE, I tried
> connecting a second CD drive, and the BIOS would not see it either.
> The machine will only see the drives that are connected to what would be
> the Master drive connection on the ribbon cable.
> Anyone have any ideas?

Ok, old system, IDE drives. You *might* want to mouse around in the BIOS
itself, and look for odd corners, such as if something's disabled. I mean,
we have a few older servers that I had to disable an option that was
explicitly (though it didn't say so) and exclusively for OS/2, and these
servers ain't 10 years old.

        mark