Re: issues with SATA hard drives

From: rramineni (rramineni_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/24/04

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    I currently dont have any version of linux installed
    on the PC. Its a new PC and has only XP on drive 0. I
    created a boot dvd (from the iso downloaded) and when
    I boot up the PC with the DVD, the bios recognizes
    both the hard disks.

    When the FC 3 installation starts, gives me an error
    saying that no hard disks were found and ends up
    shutting down the installation and re-booting the pc
    --- Geoffrey Leach <geoff@direcway.com> wrote:

    > On 12.24 09:13, rramineni wrote:
    > > I am trying to install FC 3 on a dell dimension
    > 8400
    > > PC. The mother board comes with 4 port SATA
    > interface.
    > > There are two hard drives currently installed, one
    > > with win XP and the other one is for installing
    > linux.
    > > When I boot up with windows, both the drives seem
    > to
    > > be working fine.
    > >
    > > Seems that the linux installation will not
    > recognize
    > > both of the drives.
    > >
    > > The SATA controller is Intel 82801FR SATA AHCI
    > > Controller
    > >
    > > Has any one had similar issues before? Any help
    > will
    > > be greatly appreciated
    >
    > Short answer. I have a dual-SATA MB with XP and FC3
    > sharing one drive
    > and and EXT3 file system on the other. Both work
    > fine. Controller is
    > Promise, so its not a perfect answer.
    >
    > Long answer. You need to provide more complete
    > information. You
    > presumably have XP on the first drive. You've
    > installed
    > "linux" (hopefully FC2 or FC3, or you're on the
    > wrong list) on drive 1,
    > yes? And FC boots properly? What does the boot
    > menu (aka the Grub
    > menu) show you? When you say that, "the linux
    > installation will not
    > recognize both of the drives," presumably you mean
    > that it won't
    > recognize drive 0, because if its running it must
    > have found the drive
    > its installed on. What does /etc/fstab say about
    > the XP drive?
    > Anything? If you have XP in an NTFS file system,
    > there should be
    > something like:
    > /dev/sda1 /dosc
    > ntfs
    > noauto,defaults 0 0
    >
    > where /dev/sda1 assumes that XP is on partition 0 of
    > the first drive
    > and /dosc is a directory that you create. You'll
    > also need to load the
    > ntfs kernel module. However, as the ntfs module
    > does not support
    > writing to the files on the FS, this may be a waste
    > of time for you.
    >
    >
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