FC3RC2 Install on Dell Precision 370 Fails

Thu Oct 28 15:23:15 UTC 2004

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:06 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> The kernel can't see the SATA disks. 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135644
> 
> 
> Anyone have any better luck on similar hardware? It's an Intel 925x
> chipset.
> 
> tjb
> -- 

Turns out to be a BIOS setting. I ordered the machine with two 80GB
disks and Dell set the BIOS SATA configuration to RAID. Setting it to
COMBINATION works.

tjb
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