[ale] Hardware question: BIOS not seeing my 500GB SATA for Kubuntu install

[forsaken at targaryen.us (Ken Ratliff)]

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On Feb 14, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Tim Watts wrote:

>> be MUCH better off by setting the jumpers appropriately. Cable select
>> just doesn't work 9 times out of 10. Set a master and a slave via
>> jumper settings. I bet that solves your problem.
>>
>
> By way of further information, the drive seems to whir with a very  
> slight
> vibration so it IS getting power.

You may just have a bad drive, that's all there is to it. I see dead  
drives every day as part of my job, and plenty of them will spin up  
when powered, but the bios can't see them to save it's life, plug  
another drive in of the same model number, and it usually works. All  
you can do is RMA

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