RHEL 4.4 and SATA drives

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:10:57PM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote:
> I tried to load RHEL 4.4 on a Dell Optiplex 745 and, for some reason, it 
> cannot recognize the SATA drives.  Fedora Core 6 installs fine and tells 
> me the drives are using the ata_piix module just like a half dozen other 
> machines with SATA or SAS drives that are running RHEL 3 or 4.
> 
> I know that the above is not much to go on but it really has me stumped. 
>  I cannot figure why this machine should be an exception.

You might try RHEL4 Update 5 (Beta).  Don't kow what chipset the 745 is using,
but the SATA chipset in the Dimension 9200 (ICH8 variant) wouldn't boot unless
I was using one of the newer kernels (EL4 Update 5 or FC6's kernels).

Ray