Hardrive not found error !

[Rick Stevens]

pankaj singla wrote:
> I did use Partition magic to make about 40 GB of
> partition but it still can't find the hard drive.
> 
>     I think driver is the problem. I searched on
> google and found that Linux does support some SATA
> drives like Silicon image and they have some
> discussion on this at
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=51535.
>      But I don't know whether it supports my Hard
> drive which is Seagate and even if I found some driver
> how to install those before installing linux.

It's not the drive, it's the controller.  Which SATA controller are you
using?  You might check the controller maker's website to see if they
have a driver disk for your version of Linux.  If they do, put it on
a floppy and restart the install, but use "linux dd" at the boot prompt.
That will make the system load the drivers from the floppy you make.

> --- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> 
>>pankaj singla wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>     I am new to Linux. I am trying to install
>>
>>redhat
>>
>>>9 on my new PC. It already has windows XP on one
>>>partition. 
>>>
>>>     The problem is that it couldn't find hard
>>
>>drive
>>
>>>during istallation and then the installation ends.
>>
>>The
>>
>>>hard drive is 120 GB ST3120026AS. I couldn't found
>>>linux drivers (if that is the problem) for this
>>
>>drive
>>
>>>on web.
>>>
>>>     Could somebody help me in dealing with this
>>>problem.
>>
>>You must have unassigned space on the drive to do
>>the installation.
>>By default, XP will suck up all of the drive--either
>>in a single
>>partition or multiple partitions--but all of the
>>drive is used.
>>Linux has nowhere to install.  You can verify this
>>by running the
>>Windows "fdisk" command on the drive.  If you don't
>>see any "unused"
>>part of the drive, that's your problem.
>>
>>You must use some tool such as Partition Magic or
>>Partition Commander
>>to shrink your Windows partitions down and free up
>>space on the hard
>>drive for Linux to live in.
>>
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