Re: Disk Detection Error

From: Allen Kistler (ackistler_at_oohay.moc)
Date: 06/25/05 

Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:15:36 GMT

Christopher W Aiken wrote:
> ...
>
> I boot my system, hit F12 to select boot device, and pick my
> cdrom which has RH AS 4.0 install CD. All goes well until the disk
> druid trys to locate my HD. All I get is "No hard drive devices
> found".
>
> I did same proceedure using SuSE Enterprise 9.0 and SuSE also tells me
> that I have no HD to install on. I did see that /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
> were detected as my CD drive and my DVD drive.
>
> Any clues as to what might be going on and why Linux can't locate my
> HD?
>
> I have a Dell system running Win XP Prof SP2 with 160GB drive, 1GB
> ram. The device manager indicates my drive is ST3160023AS.

The RH and SuSE installation utilities are unable to recognize your hard
drive controller.

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