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December 6th, 2004 21:00
installation snag with mandrake 10.1 on a dimension 8400
I'm trying to install mandrake 10.1 powerpack on a dimension 8400 with a SATA 80GB hard drive, but something keeps happening. First it wasn't able to read the hard drive, so after reading a previous post here I changed the drive configuration in BIOS to combination sata/pata. But after that change the installation couldn't find my cd-rom. It would get just past the detection of my USB devices. I don't understand why changing the hard drive settings should affect the cd-rom. Has anyone else had a similar problem or have any idea how to fix it? Thanks.
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hansjorn
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January 24th, 2005 06:00
I have good experience with Dell Dimension 8300 with SATA-disks and earlier versions of Mandrake (v9.2 and 10), but this one I cannot understand at all.
Dimension 8400 has a new main board, it has even room for 4 SATA-disks, so that's what I did, bought two new 200GB SATA disks and plugged them in next to the original 80GB disk using RAID0 for 200GB pair.
And now I cannot run Linux Mandrake on my new box !! - what a shame. Windows XP home, that came with the box, runs fine - but I would really appreciate sound advice with regard to a dual boot installation, that I am used to.
The problem is simple: Mandrake installation cannot see my disks at all - and I surely don't want to use a normal IDE-disk now.
Sincerely,
Hans Andersen
tdexter
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January 27th, 2005 18:00
However with the SATA set to Raid/ATA everything went fine.
The downside to using the BIOS settings is that, if you want to have a dual-boot system, you have to change the bios every time you switch. The install I helped with was Linux only.
Tom
hansjorn
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January 27th, 2005 19:00
As I understand it, you have to chance option as to the Raid setup in Bios, if you want to run Linux or Windows. So it is at least a viable alternative - given you have disk capacity for both.
Windows cannot read a Linux partition, but Linux can read a NTFS partition, so it should be possible to exchange data somehow.
I'll try it out om disk0 - hoping that I will not destroy my Raid0 setup for disk 1&2 , which works under Windows. Then in a couple of months or so, I hope, that some Linux-geniuses will come up with a better solution.
Hans