Unrecognized HD -- Drive on ATA bus 2

[Andrew McVinnie]

Yes Mike,

I sure did get YDL 2.1 working on my iBook, as a matter of fact, Im 
using it right now.

Andrew McVinnie wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
>>> 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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