SATA drives in core 3

[Saurabh Bathe]

azeem ahmad wrote:

>
>
>> From: Saurabh Bathe <sbathe at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Ryan Abell <st.fallen at gmail.com>,For users of Fedora Core 
>> releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: SATA drives in core 3
>> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:33:08 +0530
>>
>> Ryan Abell wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I am trying to install FC3 on an Alienware 7700, to a secondary hard
>>> disk. I am not really familiar with SATA drives, and Windows Xp has
>>> them as SCSI drives. Is there a recommended driver to use for these
>>> drives, or some other tactic i need to use in order for anaconda to
>>> detect them?
>>> Thank You
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> Linux detects SATA drives as SCSI.
>>
>> Generally your sata controller and the drives should be automatically 
>> detected, unless you use the so called "hardware" RAID /fakeraid 
>> feature of some of the onboard SATA controllers.
>> Though most of the controllers are natively supported and detected, 
>> there might be a few which are not supported/poorly supported.
>> Telling us which controller you have would me more helpful.
>>
>> -Saurabh
>
> hi,
> i have the same problem that anaconda doesnt detect my sata drive. its 
> a sata_sis controller.
> Regards
> Azeem

What are the BIOS settings for SATA?
For some chipsets it was required that they be in Full SATA/enhanced 
mode and not in PATA/Compatibility mode to be correctly detected.

Does the installer loads the sata_sis module?
Press Alt+F2 and do a lsmod to see which modules are loaded. If this 
module is not loaded try doing insmod sata_sis and see if it helps.
Please note that this module is still a beta so some problems might be 
expected.

-Saurabh