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Re: New Hard drive

 
Dan_320
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Re: New Hard drive

i have a maxtor ultra series 120 GB pata133 HDD.
NiCK_76
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Re: New Hard drive

Hi Dan,

Which distro are you using? Old version did not support SATA. You should loading driver before you install.
SATA controller vender should provide driver for linux. You should make a SATA controller driver disk for linux installation.
When you boot from linux install cd ,type "linux dd" for REDHAT linux or press F6 for SUSE linux to loading SATA contorller driver from driver disk.

NiCK
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kcpant
Trusted Contributor

Re: New Hard drive

Hi Nick,

He is saying PATA, not SATA, and there is no problem in setting up Linux distros on any PATA disk...
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