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  1. 08-16-2004 #1
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    Mandrake 10 only finds 2 HDD

    There are 3 HDD in the machine, the BIOS finds all three, but the partitioning part of the install only reports 2 drives. The CDROM is on the same IDE channel, so I know the IDE works. What can I try?
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  2. 08-16-2004 #2
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    When asking questions its important to suply all pertinent information, what OS are you trying to install?
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    Mandrake Linux 10.0
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    A large drive on an older machine may be rigged such that the installer doesn't understand the partition table and so ignores the drive.
    /IMHO
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    Quote Originally Posted by variant
    When asking questions its important to suply all pertinent information, what OS are you trying to install?
    Been having a bad day? He supplyed the distro in the title.
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  6. 08-18-2004 #6
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    All three drives are identical, so I don't think it can be the partition table on one particular drive.
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    All three drives are identical, so I don't think it can be the partition table on one particular drive.
    This may be a long shot, but it's all I've got and it won't hurt: Make sure that the CDROM is jumpered to be the slave and that the harddrive on the same IDE channel is jumpered to be master.
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  8. 08-19-2004 #8
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    Thanks for the suggestion, but I've done that. The CDROM clearly works as the install proceeds to completion, but I need all three disks for a RAID5 setup.
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  9. 08-26-2004 #9
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    BTTT.
    Update, I've tried installing Windows 2000 to check there aren't any hardware problems, and that worked fine.
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    I've given up on Mandrake and gone to White Box, which finds all 3 disks.
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