Re: Disk Detection Error

From: Christopher W Aiken (cwaiken_at_nospam.net)
Date: 06/26/05 

Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:01:37 +0000 (UTC)

On 2005-06-25, Allen Kistler <ackistler@oohay.moc> wrote:
> 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.

Do I have any alternatives? How about an external USB HD?

-=[cwa]=-

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