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I reformated an internal hard drive that was used by a Mac. When I connected it to a Windows computer it could be detected by BIOS or Disk Management, but when I tried on another computer that has Linux neither BIOS nor the disk utility manager would recognize this. Any ideas why?

Jim Chambers
2012-10-21 19:29:43
Is it a PATA, SATA or SCSI drive? If its a PATA (IDE interface) it could be a jumper and/or a cabling problem.
Harish Jonnalagadda
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2012-10-09 13:37:33
Yeah I would also suggest checking the cabling and cheking
ha14
2012-10-09 08:18:50
Run tail -f /var/log/messages while you connect the driver. this can give you some info on what is wrong, perhaps driver missing?
ahmed Fouad khalil
2012-10-09 06:29:46
Check any hardware issue for the HD connection like jumber not in the right position (master- slave issue)then when it is recognize by BIOS, we can check the system issue
ashish khajuria
2012-10-09 06:06:59
BIOS is not detecting the reason due port problem or cable problem not a OS issue. BIOS and OS has no relation with detection of hard drive.
Bruce Epper
2012-10-09 00:38:32
As far as BIOS detection goes, the operating system doesn't matter becase we have not even hit that level of complexity yet. Check for a bad port or a cabling problem on the Linux machine since it is not seeing the drive in BIOS (gotta be a hardware issue of some sort).