azeem ahmad wrote:
From: Saurabh Bathe <sbathe@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ryan Abell <st.fallen@xxxxxxxxx>,For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SATA drives in core 3
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:33:08 +0530
Ryan Abell wrote:
Hello, I am trying to install FC3 on an Alienware 7700, to a secondary hard disk. I am not really familiar with SATA drives, and Windows Xp has them as SCSI drives. Is there a recommended driver to use for these drives, or some other tactic i need to use in order for anaconda to detect them? Thank You
Hi Ryan,
Linux detects SATA drives as SCSI.
Generally your sata controller and the drives should be automatically detected, unless you use the so called "hardware" RAID /fakeraid feature of some of the onboard SATA controllers.
Though most of the controllers are natively supported and detected, there might be a few which are not supported/poorly supported.
Telling us which controller you have would me more helpful.
-Saurabh
hi,
i have the same problem that anaconda doesnt detect my sata drive. its a sata_sis controller.
Regards
Azeem
What are the BIOS settings for SATA?
For some chipsets it was required that they be in Full SATA/enhanced mode and not in PATA/Compatibility mode to be correctly detected.
Does the installer loads the sata_sis module?
Press Alt+F2 and do a lsmod to see which modules are loaded. If this module is not loaded try doing insmod sata_sis and see if it helps.
Please note that this module is still a beta so some problems might be expected.
-Saurabh
