On Nov 27, 2013 1:34 PM, "Artur Łądka" <arturla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 27/11/13 12:02, Tony Whitmore wrote: >> >> It's a limitation of old BIOSes - look for a BIOS update that might address the issue. If you can't find one then you might be out of luck... >> >> Tony >> > And even if disk is not recognized by BIOS try to boot up from LiveCD/USB and check if this new HDD is visible there. If yes, you can install grub and /boot/ partition on separate drive which BIOS can recognize (can be USB drive or IDE-to-CF adapter). > > Some hard drives have a jumper to set them in SATA I mode - check yours if it is possible. >
I would try this also. Even if the bios does not recognise it, if you can get a Linux kernel booted from cd or usb, the kernel driver might recognise it.
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