Red Hat 9 installation on SATA HD

MbowerARA · 01-26-2005, 08:41 AM

I just got this new Dell Dimension 8400 and I am wanting to install Red Hat 9. It has a 400 GB SATA Hitachi HD that Red Hat does not see when I being the installation. Is there support for SATA and Red Hat out there? If so, could someone let me know how to configure the install so it can see the drive. The system specs are below:

P4 3.6 Prescott
4 GB of DDR2 533
400 GB SATA Hitachi HD
Intel chipset 925XE (I think)

Any help with this would be great. Thanks

reddazz · 01-26-2005, 09:38 AM

Is there any particular need for you to use Redhat 9? It's now an outdated distro so things like SATA will coz problems for you. You may wish to try newer distros like Fedora Core or Redhat Enterprise Linux (or it's clones like CentOS coz they will have better support for newer kinds of hardware compared to Redhat 9.

MbowerARA · 01-26-2005, 10:10 AM

Yeah, it is for my company and they need those exact specs. I got it working though, I found a BIOS setting that made it work. Thanks.

pitch1115 · 02-02-2005, 10:46 AM

Hi,
I am trying to do the same thing on a Dell Poweredge server, you mind giving the details of the BIOS setting that fixed your problem?

MbowerARA · 02-02-2005, 11:59 AM

There was a setting that changed how it used the SATA drive (etc. RAID). I can't remember exactly what it was called, all I remember is that it was the "combination" setting that made it work. Hope this helps.

g_vashishtha · 09-13-2006, 10:47 AM

I just got this new Dell Dimension 8400 and I am wanting to install Red Hat 9. It has a 40 GB SATA SAMSUNG HD that Red Hat does not see when I being the installation. Is there support for SATA and Red Hat out there? If so, could someone let me know how to configure the install so it can see the drive. The system specs are below:

P4 2.8 GHz
256 MB DDR RAM
40 GB SATA SAMSUNG HD
Intel chipset 915GAV (I KNOW)

Any help with this would be great.