issues with SATA hard drives
rramineni
rramineni at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 24 19:56:46 UTC 2004
I currently dont have any version of linux installed
on the PC. Its a new PC and has only XP on drive 0. I
created a boot dvd (from the iso downloaded) and when
I boot up the PC with the DVD, the bios recognizes
both the hard disks.
When the FC 3 installation starts, gives me an error
saying that no hard disks were found and ends up
shutting down the installation and re-booting the pc
--- Geoffrey Leach <geoff at direcway.com> wrote:
> On 12.24 09:13, rramineni wrote:
> > I am trying to install FC 3 on a dell dimension
> 8400
> > PC. The mother board comes with 4 port SATA
> interface.
> > There are two hard drives currently installed, one
> > with win XP and the other one is for installing
> linux.
> > When I boot up with windows, both the drives seem
> to
> > be working fine.
> >
> > Seems that the linux installation will not
> recognize
> > both of the drives.
> >
> > The SATA controller is Intel 82801FR SATA AHCI
> > Controller
> >
> > Has any one had similar issues before? Any help
> will
> > be greatly appreciated
>
> Short answer. I have a dual-SATA MB with XP and FC3
> sharing one drive
> and and EXT3 file system on the other. Both work
> fine. Controller is
> Promise, so its not a perfect answer.
>
> Long answer. You need to provide more complete
> information. You
> presumably have XP on the first drive. You've
> installed
> "linux" (hopefully FC2 or FC3, or you're on the
> wrong list) on drive 1,
> yes? And FC boots properly? What does the boot
> menu (aka the Grub
> menu) show you? When you say that, "the linux
> installation will not
> recognize both of the drives," presumably you mean
> that it won't
> recognize drive 0, because if its running it must
> have found the drive
> its installed on. What does /etc/fstab say about
> the XP drive?
> Anything? If you have XP in an NTFS file system,
> there should be
> something like:
> /dev/sda1 /dosc
> ntfs
> noauto,defaults 0 0
>
> where /dev/sda1 assumes that XP is on partition 0 of
> the first drive
> and /dosc is a directory that you create. You'll
> also need to load the
> ntfs kernel module. However, as the ntfs module
> does not support
> writing to the files on the FS, this may be a waste
> of time for you.
>
>
>
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