When i try to install RHEL3 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. Pls. Tell me how to fix this problem.

I have the same problem .... and i posted it too on a few forums ... but no decent reply till now. lets hope for the best.
Turbo
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Hey I am here.

Just download Fedora (the son of Red Hat).

Many old versions of Linux can't recognise a Sata. That is all.

While on this subject, Ubuntu is the No 1 distro currently and it cannot reach that position without some nice features. It eats Sata for breakfast!

Personally I can't see why you guys can't have them both or even more. Both FC2/FC3/FC4 and Ubuntu can be accommodated in a 5Gb partition but you need a 1Gb swap partition common to all Linux. I am Linux scrumbag for having 45+ systems in the box so it isn't greedy to have a few.

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

Adding a patch isn't going to be very helpful during an installation. If the Linux can't be installed where can it be patched?

Even a XP need a Sata driver, usually in a floppy, installed before it can see the Sata.

Hi saikee,

Told you I might be wrong. ;-)

I had a friend install an older Linux on a SATA based machine. Not sure how he did it but after he installed he was unable to locate or mount the drives.

I guess it can be installed though.

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

Steve

I think some of the old distros do allow you to pick a kernel that recognise a Sata at the beginning but that isn't universal. I haven't look deep into elive.

Slackware comes with a few pre-compiled kernels. All you have to do is to enter the right boot option (e.g. boot: sata.i) to boot a kernel with sata support. I don't know about other distros.

Greetings,

I just got two new barebone PC from ASUS: http://usa.asus.com/products/desktop...1/overview.htm
T2-AE1. Sempron 64 bits 2600+
With one 80GB WesternDigital SATA.

Chipset
North Bridge: SiS 760GX
South Bridge: 965L

I have tryed to install Ubuntu 5.04 (32 and 64 bit) = Can't find partitionable media!
CentOS 4.1 (32 and 64 bit) = Can't find HardDrive.
Fedora Core 4 (32 and 64 bit) = both version keep on rebooting, can't even test de media
Fedora Core 3 ( 32bit)

So it seems that i have a problem with my SATA drive. I pluged a Pata drive with the CDrom as a slave, Installation work fine for all distro (Not FC4)

Any other idea of what i could try ? Or how to debug this error?

Thank you,

My Ubuntu 5.04 sees the Sata as sda & sdb
Haven't checked my Cento 4.1
FC3 & 4 have no problem either calling them sda & sdb. In fact my FC4 is in sdb10

I leave the bigLinux for the Sata because I can't get more than 15 partitions out of a Sata as it is a SCSI type disk. For IDE I can get 60 partitions out out of Linux. My distros are in 5Gb slots so most of them are in IDE drives.

I have also Mandriva 2006-0.2, Scientific Linux and Asianux 2.0 bootable in the Sata.

According to the notes I kept the following distros can recognise Sata without additional tweak

Blag, Red Flag, Linare, Vine, Specifix, PClinux, slax, Sam, Suse, Frugalware, Mepis, Zenwalk, knoppix

I haven't gone into debugging it yet. Got the feeling if I wait long enough all of them will sort themselves out.

Greetings,

So, what would cause my SATA not to work with Ubuntu, FC3 and FC4?

It is only a question of Chipset?

Is it because the SiS 760GX is not supported ?

What type of hardware do you have ? (Motherboard, CPU) ?

btk

Mine is pretty old socket A. Just a Asus K7N8X-E m/b with an Athlon 2800. It got Nvidia nForce 2 Ultra 400 & MCP-T for the Northbridge and Southbridge.

Find the sata drivers from red hat and load onto a floppy.At install with red hat or fedora it asks if you want to load drivers.Point to the floppy and continue with the install.

Greetings,

Can you assist me, where can i find the RedHat or Fedora drivers for the SATA, how to choose the correct drivers.. Is it based on the ChipSet : SiS 760GX

Is that what i have to look for? On what web site ?


Btk

Nevermind,I was thinking sata raid or sata with an interface card in which you would need the drivers for the interface card...most have red hat drivers.

My suggestion is try a new version of a distro.

Almost all the new distro releases will work with sata.