SATA HDD not detecting while installing Linux

Hi,

Ha r all of ya. yeah, am fine. I have an issue. While installing RedHat Linux 9 my SATA HDD is not detecting. I do have the following specifications:

SATA HDD -- PRIMARY MASTER -- 80 GB

IDE HDD -- SECONDARY SLAVE -- 40 GB

Waitin for your appreciable suggesstions.

Thanks & Regards,

DADA

hi dada,

as far as i know, rh9 was developed years ago before the the released of SATA drives.
would there be a reason for installing rh9? i suggest that you opt for a higher version like RH enterprise or fedora core 5 or 6 as these support sata drives. also for a more challenging distro you could try slackware 10.2 or 11, both support sata drives...

I had the same problem once installing Debian. It supposedly was possible to make a custom installer that would support it, but it wasn't worth the hassle at the time, so I just went with Ubuntu (Debian with a little polish, really).

So basically I agree with the above, it's just a matter of it being a newer, more recent distro and therefore supporting newer hardware.

Hi Dada,

Some days back I too had faced this problem, I had posted the query on firewall.cx. I am posting you the reply. I was not able to do as I am very new to Linux and could not understand. Hope it is of some help to you. Also let me know if u are able to achieve that.

www.firewall.cx/ftopict-2930-.html

Regards

gainil

Ok Frens,
Problem is solved now. Installing CentOS on Intel 965 board with SATA is due to problem of IDE (CDROM).

Solution: Install from Network. That's it.

Hurray

Next time the problem occurs try tweaking some bios settings, if it allows you. The settings you want to mess with are the advanced settings for IDE devices. Disable DMA and force the cd-rom (or it's respective controller) to only use PIO. It's slower, but it will most likely fix the problem.