-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Roden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> One of our students tried to install RH9 on a computer with the following:
> 
> Mother board: ABIT
> Chipset: VIA
> Hard disk: Seagate SATA
> 
> When he got to the disk formatting part of the installation he got an
> error stating that no hard disk was found.
> Does anybody have any idea what can be the problem and a
> possible solution?

Have him try to temporarily put an IDE disk in the machine, install Linux, make sure 
he has the SATA loadable modules in place, mount the SATA disk and copy everything 
over. He'd probably need to rebuild his initrd to have the drivers load on boot time.

I've never tried it, but I do know that Mandrake 9.1 doesn't come with SATA drivers 
compiled in. Maybe it can be done with an external drivers disk for the installer, but 
I don't know how.

-- Arik

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