FC9 installation sees SATA drives but not PATA

[Seann Clark]

Stephen Soliday wrote:
> I want to install FC9 in place of my old Debian 4
>
> I have one PATA three SATA hard drives and a SATA DVD-RW on a
> ASUS N1L64-SLI WS motherboard   with the 0505 bios release
>
> IDE:
> /dev/hda1    ntfs      Windows vista boot
> /dev/hda2    linux-swap
> /dev/hda3    reiserfs    debian /
>
> SATA:
> /dev/sda1  &
> /dev/sda2   configured with LVM as RAID 1 mounted as /home
> /dev/sdc1  ntfs   windows data drive
>
> The problem is that FC9 will not see the ide drive (/dev/hda) it does 
> not show up in /proc/partitions
> I tried Fedora Live 8 with the same result, the kernel sees the SATA 
> drives but not the IDE
>
> I have tried various boot parameters such as     libata.dma=0  or 
> ide=nodma
>
> I do not think it is a BIOS problem because I am running the older 
> Linux just fine. Also, various live CD's such as
> Knopix and SLAX see all four drives.
>
> I can always add another SATA drive just for the Linux OS, but I would 
> rather see this problem solved first.
>
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Fedora changed how it see's hard drives in Fedora 8, all IDE and SATA 
drives are listed as /dev/sd*


Regards,
Seann