Seems that your BIOS never recognized your IDE drives (or it stopped
recognizing them due to some reason).
Check your BIOS setup settings.
When Linux starts up, it carries its own hardware recognition procedure,
independently of what the BIOS recognized or not. So it is possible for
Linux to work happily with hardware, which was not recognized at all by
BIOS.
Did you ever boot your PC after Linux installation, before the UPS
episode, and it booted OK? If not, this may be where the dead dog is
buried.
[By the way, this hypothesis makes your question on-topic on this mailing
list.]
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, solomon wrote:
> I have a strange problem on my new computer. It may be hardware related, but I
> decided to ask here first before going back to the store.
>
> I have 1 sata drive (sda1), 2 ide drives (hda, hdb) and 2 optical drives (hdc,
> hdd). Everything was working fine for a few weeks until I had to re-boot to
> hook the machine to my UPS. Now, for no (apparent) reason, at boot, the
> computer doesn't recognize hda and hdb (the first IDE interface). For that
> reason, I couldn't boot LINUX (fstab errors). I used a rescue disk to edit
> fstab and got the computer running. Strangely enough, I can manually mount
> the partitions on hda and hdb, even though BIOS didn't seem to see them. Of
> course, although this works, it's not a solution since I don't want to have
> tomanually mount partitions.
>
> Aside from the obvious fact that Mandrake seems to handle my ide disks better
> than the motherboard does, can anyone tell me if I'm looking at a hardware or
> software problem? I'm not including any details about motherboard, BIOS, etc
> since, if this is a hardware problem, this entire message is actually OT.
--- Omer
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