I am trying to install FC 3 on a dell dimension 8400 PC. The mother board comes with 4 port SATA interface. There are two hard drives currently installed, one with win XP and the other one is for installing linux. When I boot up with windows, both the drives seem to be working fine.
Seems that the linux installation will not recognize both of the drives.
The SATA controller is Intel 82801FR SATA AHCI Controller
Has any one had similar issues before? Any help will be greatly appreciated
Short answer. I have a dual-SATA MB with XP and FC3 sharing one drive and and EXT3 file system on the other. Both work fine. Controller is Promise, so its not a perfect answer.
Long answer. You need to provide more complete information. You presumably have XP on the first drive. You've installed "linux" (hopefully FC2 or FC3, or you're on the wrong list) on drive 1, yes? And FC boots properly? What does the boot menu (aka the Grub menu) show you? When you say that, "the linux installation will not recognize both of the drives," presumably you mean that it won't recognize drive 0, because if its running it must have found the drive its installed on. What does /etc/fstab say about the XP drive? Anything? If you have XP in an NTFS file system, there should be something like:
/dev/sda1 /dosc ntfs noauto,defaults 0 0
where /dev/sda1 assumes that XP is on partition 0 of the first drive and /dosc is a directory that you create. You'll also need to load the ntfs kernel module. However, as the ntfs module does not support writing to the files on the FS, this may be a waste of time for you.
