sata drive
 

ok i was trying mandrake 9.0 and cannot find my serial drive and i think the 10 g ide drive is formated in ntfs.... it came up saying hard drive failer.
one is this because it is in ntfs.... or does the m/b need to support linux altogether.
what is up with the serial drives... do only certain o/s work from boot
i can get the cd to start it but it says no drive found..... the all ^%$% breaks loose and box locks up and i need to reboot again ???

i tried knoppix 3.1 live.... intresting but very slow lag and lock ups on a couple of programs....

my box runs smoother on the serial drive.... asrock P4V88....
which alows freedom in the cd/dvd drive areas to run faster

any suggestions...?

Re: sata drive
 

NTFS is a proprietary Microsoft file system. There are some distros that can read and write NTFS but it is experimental, due to being a closed source FS another reason is because MS owns the FS.

I use ext3 fs for all my Linux partitions, except for swap, which is just swap. If you boot up your Knoppix live CD, then open a terminal, the type the following command

This will list out your hard drives. This will tell you if they are working and if the kernel can see them.

if you want to learn about sata drive in linux
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

Try Knoppix 3.8 or 3.9
Maybe try a newer Mandrake 2005 LE

Please be precise about messages before lock up
We cannot help otherwise
What mobo?

If this HD is 10 go I really doubt it is sata: it is too small
If you are going to wipe the HD to install linux on it
you should be fine

sata
 

sorry about the lack of info
i think one thing and type something totaly different
ok mobo is a P4V88 asrock..... no i was trying to load on a sata drive at first
then switch computers to one i am not even sure what it is .... and a 10 g drive which is a ide
today i aquired another box i am going to try out and i will have to repost my findings
thanks for the info .... thas has gotten me one step closer

Go in your bios and change the ide controller to "legacy" type. Then linux will find the SATA drives. I know you can do it. Just use you imagination.