SATA drive not detected

varaahan · 12-09-2006, 05:58 AM

I have a Seagate SATA (160 GB) drive.
Not all distros locate this drive during installation.
So far I have been succeful with Zenwalk/Mandriva /Puppy only.
Other distros (Slackware 10.2/Debian 3.1/PCLOS/Vector Linux) do not show this SATA drive during installation.
In Mandriva it is shown as

"ata_piix 15364 0"

Please let me know how to make this available with all distros.

pixellany · 12-09-2006, 06:35 AM

I have had very few distros that would not support my SATA drives. Right now, this machine has Fedora, Ubuntu, Mepis, PCLinuxOS, SUSE and a few others

In any event, it is a function of the individual distro---ie they need to put in the SATA driver. I think it can be compiled in or included as a kernel module.

varaahan · 12-09-2006, 08:20 AM

But how to do that while installing a distro?

michaelk · 12-09-2006, 08:56 AM

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.