maxtor drive issue

[Matthew Carpenter]

Well, we all know how you feel about the SuSE 80 installer :)  And
rightfully so.  SuSE 80 and MDK81 have similarly fornicated installers.

But then, the quick and dirty would be to get into the BIOS and turn off
the special crap to the drive.  The Cable would be an easy way to
accomplish this, although I've never tried it.  What kind of machine is
she using?  The Award BIOS, IIRC, is the one with the White on Blue
centered menu.  The Hard Drive config should be the first option.  Have
her play with moving around that screen with the cursors/tab.  Doesn't
this stuff always happen on the first install?  :(

It is a sad state when the HARD DRIVE, of all things, is getting too
complex to use.  Next, you'll have to configure your BIOS to use the
CDROM-Sound Card cable.


 On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 07:57:42 -0400
"dep" <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:

> need a workaround here.
> 
> my baby sister in wisconsin just got a machine with the specific 
> intent of installing linux; distro she chose was suse 8.0; it's her 
> first linux install. the problem is that machine came with a maxtor 
> ata-133 drive, a D740X. the install gets to "probing hard drives" and 
> there it stops, probing the hard drive forever. the suse database 
> refers to a problem with installing 7.3 to these drives, but nothing 
> on 8.0. a post to the suse list gleaned the knowledge that a.) it 
> cannot be installed on these drives; b.) that it installs on these 
> drives just fine; c.) that it can be installed on these drives but is 
> difficult and if udma is later enabled it won't boot. in short, all 
> the possibilities, just about.
> 
> anybody know anything about these drives and whether it's a 
> suse-specific problem, whether there's a reliable workaround, or 
> whether the drive needs to go back?
> -- 
> dep
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