Re: How to Install Debian Sarge on SATA drive???

I just tried to fred wrote: 
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:37:46 -0500, Bill Stowell wrote:



      From: "hoosierbill1234" <hoosierbill1234@xxxxxxxxx>
      Date: Sun Dec 25, 2005  7:21 pm
      Subject: Re: Loading Linux on a new SATA drive  hoosierbill1234
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--- In LINUX_Newbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "IraqiGeek" <Geek@xxxx> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:39 AM GMT,
> hoosierbill1234 <hoosierbill1234@xxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have a computer with 3 hard drives--two IDE drives with 20 GB each
> > and one 160GB SATA drive that is blank. I use the 20GB drives for
> > general storage. Would like to load Debian Sarge onto the SATA drive.
> > (The SATA drive is a removable hard drive. I have an identical
> > removable SATA drive with Win XP on it.)
> >
> > When I start the installer sequence for Debian Sarge from my DVD
> > drive, it tells me about the two IDE drives, but does not identify the
> > SATA drive. The partitioning page of the installer does not give me
> > the option to partition and install anything on the SATA drive and so
> > far as I can tell its existence isn't recognized by the installer.
> >
> > The SATA drive is new, and I believe that it is neither formatted nor
> > partitioned.
> >
> > Is there a way I can get my Debian Sarge installer to find my SATA
> > drive?
> >
> > My computer has a VIA SATA RAID controller that controls the SATA
> > drive.
> >
>
> Not that I know how to do this, but you should first have the
drivers for
> the SATA controller, because that's what the OS will deal with when
trying
> to access your SATA drive. I suggest googling for Debian VIA SATA
controller
> (and probably the controller chip model) to find how to do this.
>
> Regards,
> IraqiGeek
> www.iraqigeek.com
>

      Hi,

      Thanks for the input. I have downloaded the drivers for my version of
      linux. The next step is to find out how to get the drivers loaded so
      that the Debian OS will recognize my SATA drive.

      My son works with Win systems and told me that when Win is installing,
      if it can't find a hard drive it asks for drivers. I don't know how
      the process might work with the Debian Sarge installer. My first
      try, the installer found the two IDE drives and didn't ask for info
      about other potential drives. Do you know if it will ask for drivers
      if no hard drive is found? I can unplug my IDE drives for the
      installation if that makes sense.

      any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

Bill 

HI

I had a system with sata drive and ide drives mixed also. The installer
did not recognize sata then either. So disconnected the ide drives and
went with just the sata drive. After that the Debian network sarge
installer used the sata drivers automaticly. With no problem.


load the Linux from debain sarge 3.1r0a onto my SATA drive. After disconnecting the IDE hard drives, the only hard drive left was my sATA drive. (My DVD/RW is on an IDE bus.) Anyhow, Sarge still didn't find my SATA drive.

Any thoughts? I have to have the DVD/RW hooked up or I can't read my DVD's with SArge on them.

thanks for the idea--it didn't work --


Bill
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