FC3 installation failure -- SATA problem?

[Steve Sheldon]

Hi Peter,
Remove all partitions from your sata drive usng fdisk & it'll work 
fine.. it is a known problem..
All the best
Steve

peter wu wrote:

> Thanks for your kind reply. (I think Aaron's e-mail was sent to only 
> me, so I am repeating.)
>
> It's weird... I initially had FC3 INSTALLED on my computer with SATA 
> drive. But since partition table got hosed, I wiped out the hard 
> drive, and installed FC4. Now, a program that I use doesn't run 
> correctly on FC4 (whereas it runs cleanly on FC3), so I wanted to 
> install FC3 back again. But this time it doesn't even install.
>
> Thanks for your help, in advance.
>
> --peter
>
> P.S. I think I was a much better person before I met Linux and 
> dual-booting and partitioning...
>
> */akonstam at trinity.edu/* wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:52:22PM -0800, peter wu wrote:
>     > Yes. It's Dell Dimension 8400 with SATA.
>     >
>     > --peter
>     Well someone correct me if I am wrong. The! handling of SATA drives is
>     a way FC3 differs from FC4. Or to put it another way it would not
>     surprise me that FC4 could recognize your drives and FC3 cannot. Just
>     a thought.
>     >
>     > akonstam at trinity.edu wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:28:22AM
>     -0800, peter wu wrote:
>     > > Hi, all,
>     > >
>     > > When I try to install FC3, I get the warning, "No hard drives
>     have been found. You probably need to manually choose device
>     drivers for the installation to succeed. Would you like to select
>     drivers now?" If I choose a device, or just go ahead with
>     installation, I get to Disk Partitioning Setup. When I ask for
>     automatic partitioning, I get this message: "No Drives Found: An
>     error has occurred. No valid devices were found on which to create
>     new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this
>     problem." Then installation fails.
>     > >
>     > > My question is: I already have FC4, but why FC3 installation
>     would not recognize hard ! drive and how can I resolve this? (I
>     want to install FC3 because one program is not forward-compatible.
>     Please don't say "Use FC4.")
>     > >
>     > > Thanks for your help, in advance.
>     > >
>     > > --peter
>     > What kind of drives are these. SATA drives maybe?
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