Unrecognized HD -- Drive on ATA bus 2

[Andrew McVinnie]

Hi Mike,

Im rather new to YDL but I thought maybe I could help.

I too have a Dual USB iBook (600mh)

I just recently installed YDL 2.1 and it worked just fine.

Firstly, when you partition your Hard Drive, make sure in Drive Setup 
that the unallocateed portion of the drive is the FIRST partition, or 
YDL won't see it for sure.  I have a feeling that is your problem.  You 
have the HFS+ partition first, with a smaller second unallocated partion 
following.

Once you have an unallocated partition as the first Partition, YDL 
should see it fine.  Then I assume you havent even gotten to the next 
part of the YDL installer, where you format drives with the YDL 
installer.  At this point you need to make 3 more little partitions with 
the YDL installer, a boot drive 10 mb, a SWAP drive 256 mb, and all the 
rest that is still unallocated can be your main hard drive.  (You 
probably already know this, and just have not been able to even get this 
far in the installer).

Hope this helped.
Andrew McVinnie

page comstock wrote:

> did you ever get YDL working on your iBook?
>
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>> 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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