Unrecognized HD -- Drive on ATA bus 2

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did you ever get YDL working on your iBook?


>From: Mike Abraham <mike@firehosesoftware.com>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>Subject: Unrecognized HD -- Drive on ATA bus 2
>Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:08:39 -0600
>
>An update to my earlier posts (skip ahead to 'NEW INFO' if the following
>seems familiar):
>
>No matter how I partition the drive on my iBook 2 (dual usb), the YDL
>2.2 install gives a partition error -- no hard disk found.
>
>Currently, the drive is configured with 2 partitions, according to the
>instructions. The first is marked as unallocated, while the second is
>HFS, and has OS 9 installed.
>
>I've seen some docs which suggest that the YDL partition needs to be
>formatted as HFS as well, though this contradicts the YDL 2.2 install 
>guide.
>
>This doesn't seem specific to YDL either -- Mandrake 8.2 gives the same 
>error.
>
>NEW INFO: I read a post elsewhere that suggested that the partitioning
>tool used during the install can't recognize a drive on the non-primary
>IDE bus (in my case, bus 2). This seems to make sense, since the OS 9
>version of pdisk can't recognize the drive either.
>
>So, how the hell has everyone else with an iBook 2 done this?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Mike
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