Can Fedora/Linux see a drive on a SATA PCI Card?

[Wayne Steenburg]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 23:40, Adam Radabaugh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Maxtor SATA 150 PCI card (Tx2) that I use a 40GB/133 drive on for
> my Windows XP.  I have Fedora (Core 2) on a 20GB/66 Western Digital on IDE
> Channel 1.  Windows can read both drives without any drivers.  Fedora can
> only see the drive it is on.  It does see my Tx2 card and does install a
> driver for it (promise_sata) which is what it is but it will not read nor
> see a drive connected to it.
> 
> This makes my job of "dual-booting" frustrating as I have to, in BIOS, tell
> my computer which drive to look at first.  Either the SATA controller or the
> IDE channel.
> 

Hi Adam, I'm unsure of support for your card under FC1, but it should
run fine under FC2. As for dual-booting, the operating system does not
*need* to see the drive. Just set the BIOS to boot off the IDE drive
(running fedora). Add an entry to /etc/grub.conf similar to this

title Windows
        map (hd0) (hd1)
        map (hd1) (hd0)
        rootnoverify    (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

The two "map" lines make windows think that it's the first disk on the
system.  It's pretty picky :)  I hope this helps.

Wayne Steenburg