mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 failure in FC5

[Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr.]

Greetings!

I just installed FC5 on my RedHat 9 system - in its own partition (not  
upgrade).
I also installed two 120GB SATA drives in the system, (which, RH9 doesn't  
support).
My motherboard and bios allowed configuring the SATA drives as RAID or as  
IDE.
Fedora did not see them when configured as RAID, so I configured the SATA  
interface as IDE.

fdisk /dev/sda did allowed me to add a primary partition to the drive.
When I tried to format the partition with mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1, mkfs  
announced that the device did not exist.

I found a note in the archives that said that if that failed, try  
mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda.  That worked.

Is there some reason that mkfs on FC5 would not recognize a primary  
partion on the SATA drive?

Mother board is MSI's PM8M-V with VW8237 chipset.




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