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Hey welcome to the world of 16 bit disk access that
we all enjoyed back in the early 1980's on the IBM AT.
The fix for your problem is wait until Linux
catches up to the Windows world in terms of, among other things, emerging disk
technologies.
If you want to run UNIX, there are many choices
which do support modern technologies perfectly well. (IE IBM AIX, HP UNIX,
Sun Solaris)
Oh yeah have fun with DMA too.
You can force Linux to use DMA for disk access on
IDE drives. Since the current work around for providing SATA support
involves wrapping SATA inside the control set for SCSI I'm not sure if you will
ever get DMA for your SATA drives.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:10
PM
Subject: Re: Problems installing FC4 on
Dell Optiplex GX620
On 3/17/06, Bruce
Keats <brucekeats@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am having all kinds of problems installing FC4 on a Dell Optiplex
GX620. When I try and use the FC4 CDs, it fails to find the hard
drive. The controller is the on board Intel SATA controller. I
know the hardware works fine because I can install FC3 on the Dell and it
works as long as the BIOS is configured for combined mode. If I do a
yum update, the latest FC3 kernel fails to boot.
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Hi Bruce!
Perhaps there are other options (see link):
Does sound like an HW problem. Sounds like rebuilding the Kernel
you have may be a good option.
Have fun!
Tod
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