[Gllug] BIOS not detecting IDE hdrives
john gennard
joney at clara.co.uk
Mon May 16 13:33:44 UTC 2005
On Mon, 16 May 2005 10:19:46, John Hearns 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.
Thank you - I'd never heard of 'smartctl'. I'll certainly
give it a go this evening (assuming I can understand the
man page!)
Regards, John.
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