Hard drive not detected
 

I recently bought a new laptop, namely a TOSHIBA Portege S100, and I really wanted to install Linux on it. But I have tried several distros and they all fail to detect my hard drive.

I tried the following distros :

Ubuntu 5.04
Xandros 3.02
Debian Sarge
VidaLinux OS (VLOS 1.1)
Mandriva 10.2

The only one that detected my hard drive properly is Mandriva, but after the intall is complete I can't login in graphical mode... I only get a blank screen.

I checked the md5sum of the ISOs I downloaded they were OK.

I used Nero 6.6 to burn the CDs, but I don't think it could be a bad burn because they all fail to detect the same thing...

My hard drive is a 60 GB TOSHIBA RAID LDO Disk as per Win XP...

I really don't know what to do... please help me.

Thx

Guillaume

I heard that the new toshiba will have sata disks.. is this the case?
A.

Yes, I'm pretty sure it is. Would that be the problem?

Thx, Merci

Guillaume

Yes, if that's the case you will need to use a SCSI (and consequently SATA-enabled) kernel for the distro you want to install, and that should detect your SATA disk.

DeepBlue.