On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I have a machine whose only hard drive is a SATA 160GB (Western >> > Digital). The SATA controller is an ITE IT8212 (a raid controller, but >> > I'm not using that feature). > > The IT8212 is a PATA controller not SATA. I guess they may have wired > SATA bridges to it. I should have clued in when you said this, but I didn't until I was messing about in the case (prompted by Roger's comments about drive searching): The drive is NOT SATA. I relied on my memory of what I had done to the hardware a couple of years back...and was completely wrong. I thought I had put in a SATA drive & controller, but in fact it was this IT8212 PATA controller and the Western Digital WD1600JB (Caviar). A EIDE drive. I guess I merely dreamed that it was a SATA controller/drive. :) So I mis-represented my problem in that respect, my apologies! So far, I've not resolved the problem, though. I've so far tried Alan's two suggestions and Roger's: * I made sure the controller was in IDE mode (I _believe_ it was before, but the controller's bios seems to default to RAID 0, rather than what you had set the mode to, so I can't be sure) * I tried the 'pata_it821x.noraid=1' boot option. * Disabling any drives besides the DVD-ROM and the Caviar HDD. (Which the only thing left was the floppy drive). I'm going more closely examine how I have the hardware put together, perhaps something will jump out at me. Oh! One other thing I tried. I had a copy of Slackware 12.x laying around, and experimentally booted up with slackware and took a look with cfdisk, and I could see the drive. What I take from that is that something about my hardware and the Fedora installer isn't playing nice together and I just have to track down what... Thanks again to the three of you (Fred, Alan and Roger) for your help. Iain -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
