On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 15:50 +0200, Colin Brace wrote: > On 7/14/06, Ben Stringer <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I had a SATA install problem today, with FC5 reporting it could not find > > any hard disks. I found that modifying the BIOS settings for the SATA > > controller helped in my case. > > Hi Ben, > > I have a smiliar issue which I posted about here several days ago > <http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-July/msg02020.html>. > > I have several SATA drives which are recognized without problem, but > my FC5 system doesn't see a new SATA drive I just added which is > connected via a PCI SATA controller. Can you be a bit more specific as > to what BIOS settings you modified? Sure - it was a Dell Optiplex 280 system (and apparently this covers a wide range of potential chipsets) wit a single SATA 40GB drive. The BIOS had two options for the SATA controller - "Normal" or "Combined". The explanation of "Combined" in the help said that it would cater for older SATA implementations (or something like this), and I found that switching to "Normal" resulted in the disk being recognised. Prior to changing this setting, the PC had been running fine with a proprietary (non-linux) O/S, and the BIOS was always able to detect the SATA drive - only the FC5 install had problems. I was surprised the drive was not recognised "out of the box", being a 12-18 month old PC, and being a Dell. Cheers, Ben > > Thanks. > > -- > Colin Brace > Amsterdam >
