Help in installation!!

[Jan Morales]

Kumara wrote:
> Hi, if it is working fine in XP, it may be not recognized by anaconda 
> which is the FC3's installation script. I'm not much certain after that 
> yet. hope somebody may help you, what is the brand and capacity of your 
> drive? try mfg's tools if provided in their web like Western Digital's 
> "Lifeguard" for capacity barriers.
> Good Luck
>  
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Muhammad Ahmad <mailto:maahmad66 at att.net>
>     *To:* For users of Fedora Core releases <mailto:fedora-list at redhat.com>
>     *Sent:* Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:41 AM
>     *Subject:* RE: Help in installation!!
> 
>     The SATA drive is running fine under windows XP. 
>      
>     It is not an issue of the BIOS not recognizing it.  I can see it
>     in the BIOS withoug any problem.
>      
>     thanks

I had a similar experience doing an FC3 install a couple of weeks ago. 
The BIOS default setting for the SATA controller was automatic--not sure 
what it means, but Windows worked just fine with it but FC3 couldn't 
find the drives. I suspect automatic mode makes the controller look like 
a RAID controller. I switched off the automatic mode and onto a non-RAID 
SATA mode and FC3 worked just fine. I would play with the BIOS and find 
a setting that works.

Jan