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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.

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.

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.