I just replaced the stock hard drive in my Power Mac Cube with a new Seagate Barracuda IV 40 GB hard drive. This is an Ultra ATA 100 (UDMA) drive that came out a few months ago. It works fine with Mac OS 9 and X.
However, the Debian install CD (November 2000) doesn't recognize the hard drive at all. fdisk or any operation on /dev/hda responds with "Device not configured", and the system log has no error messages or other mentions of a hard drive; it is not mentioned at all (/dev/hdb, the DVD-ROM, is). Previously I installed Debian on this machine from the same CD image, on the 20GB Maxtor disk that came with it, and had no problems. /proc/modules and /proc/ide return nothing; /proc/dma says "4: cascade". modprobe says "Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/modules/dep (no such file or directory)". I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. -Erik
