[mdlug] knoppix does not see the hard disk on a laptop

[R. Kannan]

This indeed seems to be the problem. I popped in a SuSE install disk and it detected the hard drive as Hitachi-HTS54328 (75 GB). It looks like the problem with Knoppix. I will download and try  another live distro as Raymond suggested.

Thanks


-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Broughton <jbroughton at twmi.rr.com>
>Sent: Dec 19, 2009 1:03 AM
>To: "R. Kannan" <rkannan at peoplepc.com>, MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [mdlug] knoppix does not see the hard disk on a laptop
>
>I no longer trust knoppix to accurately detect hardware. It has problems
>with certain sata  chips and not only that does not seemingly provide
>the modules for the ones it cannot auto detect. Seeing that you have
>an IBM/Lenovo laptop my small IBM servers probably have the same
>SATA chip in them. I also had the problem with an older Dell SC1400.
>Got me P.O.ed till I realized that knoppix is now just a pale ghost of
>what it used to be.
>
>Jim
> 
>
>
>R. Kannan wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to retrieve some files from a windows Lenovo laptop which could not be logged into. After booting into knoppix I see that the NTFS file systems are not mounted. I cannot see any devices named /dev/sda* or /dev/hda*.  I now the partitions exists as windows boot from C: drive.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Any ideas 
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