ATA hard disk not recognized

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 al

Re: ATA hard disk not recognized

It turns out that for this drive, you need to pass the hard drive geometry explicitly to the kernel. If you're booting from CD, restart holding Command-Option-O-F, and type boot:cd,\\yaboot to get the boot: prompt. In this case the arguments were: linux hda=16383,2,63 root=/dev/hda13