RHEL 4.0 & ICH7-SATA (fujitsu 80 GB) // No hardisk detected during installtion

amitsharma_26 · 10-07-2006, 03:56 AM

Laptop : HP pavillion dv2046TU
SATA : intel 82801G(ICH7 family) ultra ATA storage cotrollers -27DF
intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller // Got them from XP-home device manager.
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From #dmesg

Code:

Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
ide1: Wait for ready failed before proble !
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before proble !
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ide5: Wait for ready failed before proble !
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x3f6,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ATAPI 24x DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048 cache

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mnt /dev/sda1 /mnt/temp
mount : Mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/temp failed: No such file or directory.
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fdisk -l //doesnt returns anything.
fdisk -l /dev/sda //did not returned anything as well.
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I did tried changing BIOS setting from ENABLED SATA Native support to Disable state(legacy) // but this did'nt help me as well.
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Rhel 4.0 kernel version is : 2.6.9-5.

What shall i do next to make this sata disk get detected & work at this notebook ?

EDIT: I did find few similar threads, but i am a bit confused in two things,
first; i got to burn a seperate cd as the drivers for rhel-4 ich7. How, i mean after the extraction of the driver tar file over to my other box local harddisk-some-folder, am i suppose to copy paste that folder to CD ROM (burn)?
Second : what to do next after that ?

With best regards,
Amit.

b0uncer · 10-07-2006, 04:27 AM

I've had the image that you get the drivers, unpackage them if adviced so and burn as a normal data cd. Then you start the RHEL installation, and at some point it (should at least) asks if you want to load additional drivers; here choose yes, have the cd in the drive and pick it up. I have to admit I have not done this myself, but that's how I think it goes..

Didn't you get any README or other instructive file (like INSTALL) with the driver package?

amitsharma_26 · 10-07-2006, 05:39 AM

UPDATE :

With ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/SATA/ahci-1.00...iarch-2.tar.gz, i am able to detect my ATA FUJITSU MHV2080B harddisk but then i can not create any partitions more than 1. So let it be any partition like / or /boot or anyone else... But i cannot create any further partion after that, as it flashes a message of "Could not allocate partitions: Partioning failed: Could not allocate partitions."

What could possibily be the problem here ?

amitsharma_26 · 10-07-2006, 06:07 AM

UPDATE : Solved.

Deleted an Extended NTFS partition & things went fine further onwards.

Thank you all.