WHILE INSTALLING THE REDHAT LINUX 9.0 IN THE SATA TECHNOLOGY HDD
THE HDD IS NOT AVAILABLE MESSAGE IS COMING.
WHETHER WE HAVE TO INCLUDE ANY ADDL DRIVERS TO INSTALL THE REDHAT
IF IN CASE YES MEANS HOW CAN I GET IT?

hey radha,
well i went to the same thing myself....
just had to install it on a normal IDE(non sata) drive eventually....but you shud try somethings first..
a lil bit of gyan tho...
normal ide's are Parellel ATA and what you have is serial ATA(SATA) which is newer technology....
red hat 9 will not detect the SATA drive,so you ll need to find the
required driver for your SATA....
this ll be acc. to your motherboard chipset sata specifications....
for eg i have a via chipset based mother board and i needed to download a driver for via 8237.
anyway this is what i suggest you do->
STEP 1>look out for SATA drivers for linux in your motherboard CD.if you find it here you are really lucky.
STEP2>if not ,find out the exact chipset of your mother board,and search for a driver on the net.
STEP3>if you are successful in any of the first 2 steps then,make a lil' floppy disk acc. to intructions which ll have to be inserted at the time of the install.

if you cant do this,do what i did...install it on a normal IDE 4gb should do...and then pray real hard for the drivers!!
dhananjay

I Have a SATA hard disk but while installation of red hat linux 8.0 and Entrprise Linux It doesn't detect. It says hardware cause problem

Hi, I have Intel 915 GLVG Mainboard with 250 GB HDD.
I have installed Windows XP Pro on first NTFS Partition.
2 partition is also left blank with 10 GB NTFS.

I ahve installed RED HAT linux AS4 as a secondary O/S.

The O/s has been installed on the machine but while loading the Linux it gives the fatal error.

Any clue for the issue.

If I remember correctly, something as recent as RHEL4 did not support SATA. Based on that, I am pretty sure there is NO chance that RedHat 8 or 9 did/do.

But why try to use Redhat 8 or 9 for anything? They are way obsolete and there are now better (free) choices.

If you must have Redhat, look at the most recent versions of CentOS or Fedora.

I'm not sure that whether RED Hat support SATA HDD or not but I have the updates from the some of the team mebers who are using Linux for long that Red HAt can be installed on DATA HDD also if i can locate the appropriate HDD for the HDD.

I have SEAGATE Barcuta SATA HDD 40 GB & 250 GB Each.

Any guess for the process of driver installation.


By luck.....@@@@

You won't get RH8 or 9 running on SATA. In fact, if I remember correctly, FC3 was the first Fedora to support it (I think it needed some tweaking though).

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Hi All,

I wa facing problem in installating the RHEL 5 on SATA HDD as it was giving the Kernal Panic error while initializing the Hardware after very first Installation.

I tried to Install RHEL 5 on the SATA HDD & it has no issue at all.

The tests have been completed on below mentioned hardware.

Intel 915 GLVG Mainboard with 2.66 CPU
1 GB DDR RAM
40 GB Seagate Barcuda HDD(SATA)
250 GB Seagate Barcuda HDD(SATA)
I had installed the Linux as secondary OS after Windows XP & having no issue.

Thanks to all of you for your kind support.

Yours,
Padam
singh.padam123@gmail.com

Ugh the 'NEW' OP should have started a new thread instead of dredging up this one from 2005...