[Gllug] BIOS not detecting IDE hdrives

[John Hearns]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:27 +0100, john gennard wrote:

> 
> I said 'mainly gone away' as there still could be
> something wrong with the Fireball. I'm trying to
> install Puppy on it and keep getting segmentation
> faults and script difficulties, but these may be
> due to other factors (mainly my stupidity).
I would suggest booting the box with a Knoppix CD
and running smartctl on the drive.

(This assumes that Knoppix comes with smart, I' sure
it does).

This drive isn't sleeping, it is nailed to its perch.

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