Hi all,

After I bought a new DIY PC, and then using the Fedora Core 3 DVD to boot up the system, after the black and white text screen later, it pop up a windows and show me that "No hard drives have been found. You probably need to manually choose device drivers for the installation to succeed. Would you like to select drivers now?

I choose "Yes" and the it appeared the list of drivers that I can choose, but I don't know choose which one ....

Here are my DIY PC's hardware list.

Motherboard: Gigabyte 8I915P DUO PRO
Intel 915P (IDE1)
ICH6R
VIA VT6410 RAID Controller (IDE2, 3)
C-Media 9880 Codec HD Audio
Broadcom 5751 GE LAN x2
I/O Control: IT8712

CPU: Intel 530J (3.0GHz 775)
RAM: Conair DDR400MHz 512MB x 2
HDD: West Digital WDC WD1600JD (SATA)
HDD: Master IBM 40GB (Connected on IDE2)
Slave IBM 30GB (Connected on IDE2)
DVD-ROM/RW: Master NEC 3500AG (Connected on IDE1)
Slave Lite-ON ((Connected on IDE1)

In which Harddisk you want to install FC3 . Sata or Ide?

If IDE just connect the harddisk to IDE1 and go for it.

If SATA then there`s news. FC3 installs on SATA but i think it doesnt support all models.
I had Barracuda and the install went properly

Also check all Harddisks have been detected by your BIOS


Cheers
Z

I want to install to the SATA WDC WD1600JB HDD

It can decteted in the BIOS, but why Fedora Core 3 can't find it??

Do my BIOS's setting is wrong?

need change the SATA from RAID to AHCI Mode?

Just to troubleshoot for my own learning, if possible, I'd install FC3 to the IDE drive.

After installing and FC3 boots, see if you can recognize the SATA drive using the BIOS settings of your choice.

From there, you may be able to manually partition (/boot) the drive(s) to your liking, and copy or somehow install from the IDE1 installation to a new SATA installation.

Did you see this?

http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

I can see a few references to VIA 6420, but not VIA 6410.

From what I read, Linux can easily play with SATA, but the boot/install images may not be able to.