Mater Slave issue on installing 2TB internal drive (Newbie)

[djchamkila]

Folks,
Once again I have newbie question. I am setting up old pc to be Amahi server, it had 80 gb internal hard drive with old style hookups, I bought new WD 2TB hard drive to put in as secondary to use for storage. When I booted machine with Fedora 12 bootable DVD it installed fedora and Amahi and even showed me that I have two hard drives. But when I boot machine after installation from 80 gb primary hard drive, BIOS do not recognize any hard drive. I know new hard drives don't need jumper settings to define as slave so what do I need to do ? I had to use SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter in order to use new hard drive in old style mother board. Any ideas will be appreciated. I called westren digital and they said you need to format new hard drive to use with windows, I told them I am using it for linux and they said we don't support linux so I am turning to my fine folks here. thanks in advance.

[radioz]

Did you first setup your Bios to recognize the drive?
There are so many different bioses out there, I can't tell you exactly how to do it, but sometimes you need to enable a drive interface to get it recognized.
For sure your bios should show which drives it actually sees. Make sure this is ok before worrying about the OS.

Good luck.

[djchamkila]

thanks for tips. it turns out that my mother board will not support new hard drive so for now I setup Amahi on that old machine with only 300 GB. Thinking about getting new box later to install 2 tb drive and setting up Amahi. But for now to learn I will be playing around my old machine. Thanks a lot for your reply.