topic Re: Sata Harddisk in Operating System - Linux

Sata Harddisk

Sudhakar_16 — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:38:09 GMT

when i try to install redhat Linux3.0 WS. it aske for the driver & unable to recognise the driver.

sata hard will not support RHWS or any other verions?
please let me know.

Re: Sata Harddisk

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:42:35 GMT

Shalom Sudhakar,

I've got RH 4 ES working on systems with SATA hard disks. No issue except grub doesn't know how to write the PBA record to both disks in a mirror set.

Perhaps consider v4 which was created when SATA hard disks were widely marketed.

SEP

Re: Sata Harddisk

Andrew Cowan — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:42:13 GMT

Sudhakar,

Yours is a very common problem and the way to fix it is:

When you install you should have a driver floppy supplied by the SATA manufacturer. Boot from your CD/DVD and type: linux dd
When prompted insert your driver floppy and identify your SATA hardware.

If the driver is accepted and correctly loaded you should be able to partition your hard disk, and if it is a RAID device, only see one drive and not two in your mirror etc.

Complete the install, and if applicable, halt at the "Congratulations.." screen and press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then mount your driver floppy and run any Grub correction scripts, unmount and remove it. Press Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to the graphical console and press enter to reboot.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific about the floppy scripts but these are individual to each manufacturer and SATA device.

Re: Sata Harddisk

Sudhakar_16 — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:20:10 GMT

Hi, Could you give me the link, so that i can download.

Thanks in advance

Re: Sata Harddisk

prash_1 — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:51:30 GMT

sudhakar
plz give me system hard-ware details.
U can do one thing go to CMOS setting and change your enhanced setting PATA & SATA
(use PATA & S1-S3)
I think it will work.