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Old 05-03-2008, 06:45 PM   #1
Zack069
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SATA drive not detected


It seems that none of the really major distros can detect my sata hard drive. Is there anything I can do to get them to detect it or did I just forget to do something?
 
Old 05-03-2008, 09:28 PM   #2
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Hi, it's a bit hard to tell from the info you gave.

What disk are you trying to boot from? cd? hd?

A live disk could be helpful in this situation, if the One dvd sees (finds) the sata disk then the kernel of an install should too.

I had a similar problem last year, and I had to type in the boot line

pci=nomsi

[nomsi. If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is enabled, this kernel
boot option can be used to disable the use of MSI interrupts
system-wide.]

you can find a doc on kernel commands,

ref. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern...n_pdf/ch09.pdf (p107)

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Docum...parameters.txt

to get the cd to find my sata disk. I didn't have to do it again, it just works now even after a few clean re-installs.

There are other options you can pass to the kernel on boot, that includes the dvd or cdrom images too.

see how you go,
 
Old 05-04-2008, 06:26 AM   #3
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Check in the bios for a setting that identifies the sata as either RAID or ide. use the ide setting.
 
  


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