SATA drives in core 3

[azeem ahmad]

>From: Saurabh Bathe <sbathe at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: SATA drives in core 3
>Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 17:47:35 +0530
>
>azeem ahmad wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>>From: Saurabh Bathe <sbathe at gmail.com>
>>>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>>To: Ryan Abell <st.fallen at gmail.com>,For users of Fedora Core releases 
>>><fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>>Subject: Re: SATA drives in core 3
>>>Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:33:08 +0530
>>>
>>>Ryan Abell wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>I am trying to install FC3 on an Alienware 7700, to a secondary hard
>>>>disk. I am not really familiar with SATA drives, and Windows Xp has
>>>>them as SCSI drives. Is there a recommended driver to use for these
>>>>drives, or some other tactic i need to use in order for anaconda to
>>>>detect them?
>>>>Thank You
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Hi Ryan,
>>>
>>>Linux detects SATA drives as SCSI.
>>>
>>>Generally your sata controller and the drives should be automatically 
>>>detected, unless you use the so called "hardware" RAID /fakeraid feature 
>>>of some of the onboard SATA controllers.
>>>Though most of the controllers are natively supported and detected, there 
>>>might be a few which are not supported/poorly supported.
>>>Telling us which controller you have would me more helpful.
>>>
>>>-Saurabh
>>
>>hi,
>>i have the same problem that anaconda doesnt detect my sata drive. its a 
>>sata_sis controller.
>>Regards
>>Azeem
>
>What are the BIOS settings for SATA?
>For some chipsets it was required that they be in Full SATA/enhanced mode 
>and not in PATA/Compatibility mode to be correctly detected.
>
>Does the installer loads the sata_sis module?
>Press Alt+F2 and do a lsmod to see which modules are loaded. If this module 
>is not loaded try doing insmod sata_sis and see if it helps.
>Please note that this module is still a beta so some problems might be 
>expected.
>
>-Saurabh
hi Saurabh
it shows a box telling that anaconda is loading drivers for sata_sis. and 
then installer startsanguage, mouse configuration etc. and then when it 
reaches disk druid. then i cant see my sata drive in the list provided by 
disk druid to do partition.
Regards
Azeem
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