Greetings,

Well i have tryed
- Fedora Core 3
- Fedora Core 4
- Ubuntu 5.04
- CentOS 4.1
- Knoppix 4.0

None of them see the SATA HD.

Something's wrong! ;( My next try would be Windows XP! ;( (The HD is detected by the BIOS)

Btk

Hi if you have RHEL 3 , red hat can give support for that distro , provided you have the license . MAchine at work arwe loaded with RHEL3 and have the SATA drive . No idea where the IT team got it from but all our sata machine have it

Hi
I believe it is called aarich

At the point RedHat install complains about not finding a hard drive, there is an option to add special drivers. In the menu, there are drivers for the SATA Interface. Game is you have to select the right SATA Driver from 8 models.

Silicon Image, VIA, VSC, nVidia, SIS, Promise, K2, AHCI

Hope this helps
AJ

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btk667 ,

Before an OS can use a Sata it must get the hardwrae information from the Bios.

Have you got a Sata II disk hooked to a mobo that supports only Sata I?

Have you tried a newer Linux? I have created 44 partitions in my Sata and it is nearly filled up with Linux distros, one OS per partition. Fedora 7 and Unbuntu 7.04 are among the installed systems.

In fact the kernel 2.6.20 and newer groups all hards type SCSI, Pata, Sata and USB hard disks as sda, sdb, sdc etc. You can't have a Pata disk device names now as most distros have enacted the change.

When i try to install any linux os on my system which has a SATA Hard Disk and Win XP is alrewady installed on it it give me a error no Hard disk found or its not mounted. Pls. Tell me how to fix this problem.

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Hello,

My understanding is that SATA support is built into the 2.6.X kernel. With the 2.4.X kernel you had to add a patch?

I may be wrong.

$.02
Steve[/QUOTE]