[Gllug] [OT] Hardware problem

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:54:19PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> The good news (that makes this ever-so-slightly less than a spam email)
> is that now I have finally acted on my oft repeated promise to the kids
> to get/build them a new/faster computer they have both agreed that they
> no longer want Windows on it and will be happier with Linux.
> 
> The bad news is that, having bought a high spec Mobo (Asus P7H55-M Pro)
> for them, it seems unwilling to recognise their old 200G IDE (PATA)
> disk, though it will recognise the DVD drive on the same cable.
> 
> Actually, not recognise is not the right word - not see at all is
> better.
> 
> I cannot google anything to suggest that I have hit a known problem so
> am coming to believe the drive has been killed in some way, though don't
> know how.
> 
> I have to test that obviously, but before I unscrew everything again,
> anybody ever had a similar problem and know of some heuristics I might
> employ to fix this in a software/BIOS sort of way.

It might be simplest to just get a SATA disk, a quick peep at my local supplier
and I see:

* Hitachi Deskstar 320GB 3.5 7200rpm 16mb Sata -- #35.24 inc vat
* Hitachi Deskstar 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache -- #39.89 inc vat

This means that you have the old machine as a backup/...

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