Subject: Re: YDL 2.1 Installer: No Harddisks Found
From: Geert Janssens (geert.janssens3@pandora.be)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 06:41:34 MST
David Mackler wrote:
> Hello Geert,
>
> On my G3/233 (beige) with Seagate 20GB, I had exactly the same problem.
>
> You'll need to the following to your kernel arguments:
> hda=16383,16,63
>
> in order for it to recognize the disk. I never found out why this is needed,
> other than suspecting that the IDE bus is not waiting long enough for the
> drive to say it is ready.
>
> HTH,
> David
Hello David,
That indeed did help !
With your work around, I was able to install YDL without any further
problems.
Thank you very much.
Geert
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