The RS480M2 motherboard you are using is loaded with a ATI SATA controller, which any kernel prior to 2.6.11 will fail to detect. There are multiple ways to do it. If you stick to FEDORA then put a PATA drive, install FEDORA..upgrade the kernel and the SATA drive will get detected. Otherwise use something like SuSE 9.3 or Gentoo 2005.1. It will detct the SATA controller out of the box. You can contact Anirban (of the mailing list) for SuSE 9.3 DVD. I have the DVD but do not have a DVD writer.
Also the new drivers at freedesktop.org support the ATI 9600 onboard graphics fully. (Do not use the proprietory driver provided by ATI in any case) Arijit ----- Original Message ----- From: "moumunna Raychaudhuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OT]Re: [ilug-cal] Motherboard for AMD64 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:53:28 +0100 (BST) > > For nearly 5 months I am using AMD64 3200+ and MSI480 > with a SATA hard drive. I tried Fedora Core 3, > PCQLINUX, RedHat enterprise 9.0 (distributed with > AmarPC) but failed. None could "find the hard drive". > A post by me in this group found only four "upgrade > the BIOS" responses. This is impossible in a small > town like ours due to inadequate internet fecility. I > don't know whether newer distros solve it, neither do > I know what happens in case of ATA hard drives. A > "RAID" disk is supplied with the MB, but none > suggested any use of this in this matter. > Last but not the least -- WINDOWS XP gave no trouble, > installed without any hinge, works really well!! > > ***STICK TO THE SMPS SPECIFICATIONS GIVEN BY MSI > (INCLUDED IN THE GUIDE BOOK)**** > > Mou and Munna > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
