From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: BIOS does not recognize 500GB-disk Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:38:45 +0900 Message-ID: <468AFA25.8000400@gmail.com> References: <20070703225517.GA22912@danisch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.232]:59428 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753198AbXGDBiu (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 21:38:50 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1422777nze for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:38:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070703225517.GA22912@danisch.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Hadmut Danisch Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hadmut Danisch wrote: > Hi, > > just a question: > > I have an older computer with a ASRock K7VT4A Pro mainboard and a VIA sata > controller. > > A 320GB Seagate SATA disk worked pretty well with that board, but now I replaced > it with a 500GB Western Digital SATA, and the BIOS does not recognize that > new disk, allthough I've updated the BIOS to the latest available version. > The disk is not available under Linux (latest Ubuntu, 2.6.20). Please post boot dmesg. -- tejun