SATA HardDisk not detecting

[Randy Kelsoe]

Rajiv wrote:

> Dear all,
>         I want use SATA Hard Disk. But Fedora is not Detecting the
> Hard Disk. I have connected the SATA Hard Disk as slave with the IDE

That is hard to do, since the cables are completely different. Are you 
sure this is a SATA drive? Are you using a SATA to IDE adapter? What 
model of SATA drive do you have, and which SATA chipset is your 
motherboard using?

> Hard Disk (which is also having Fedora ) and Installed some driver
> available in the MotherBoard CD. But the SATA HardDisk is not detected.
> I want to know what driver to use for SATA HardDisk to be detected?
> Thanks in Advance.

We need to know what SATA chipset your motherboard is using. (an lspci 
will tell you). Which driver you use is dependent on which chipset you 
have. You might check dmesg and grep for SATA and look at the lines 
after the SATA entries if they exist.

The kernel version you are using can make a big difference, as well. I 
have the Si3112 SATA chipset, and until kernel 2.6.7, my drive was 
detected as a PATA drive (/dev/hde). Since 2.6.7, my drive is seen as a 
scsi drive (/dev/sda). We need more information before we can help you.