[PLUG] Can't see second hard drive for Linux Mint install

[David Kaplan]

I will give that a try. Somebody in the Mint forum told me to run Mint 7
instead. I sounds like there's a bug in the installer. I also tried Ubuntu
and it could not see the drive either. I really think its a BIOS issue, and
there's no option to turn off raid, which I think is causing the problem.



On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Carlos Konstanski <
ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:17:04 -0800
> > From: Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <wevl at pacifier.com>
> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;    civil and on-topic"
> >     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;  civil and on-topic"
> >     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Can't see second hard drive for Linux Mint install
> >
> > David Kaplan wrote:
> >> I've been trying to install Linux Mint 8 on a friends Dell Dimension
> 8400
> >> desktop. It has a 250gb hdd. as sata 0 and the new 320gb hdd is set at
> sata
> >> 1. The BIOS sees both hdds but the Mint installer only sees the first
> 250gb
> >> hdd. Someone told me to turn off the raid setting but there is not way
> to
> >> turn it off in the BIOS. The Mint Forum told me to run on the live CD:
> >>
> >> $ sudo apt-get remove dmraid
> >>
> >> sounded like a good idea, but after running it and logging back in to
> the
> >> live CD nothing happened. The installer will only see the first 250gb
> hdd.
> >>
> >> Any other ideas?
> >>
> > Try Slackware? ;-)
> > Wayne
>
> But seriously, try booting with Knoppix or Finnix. If either of these
> can see the HDD, then Mint is the problem. But if they cannot, then
> it's a BIOS-level issue.
>
> Carlos
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