indyszeto wrote: > Hi, > > I had one set of RH9 installation disk made around 1-2 years ago. I've > just bought one new WD 320GB SATA II HDD (320KS) and intend to install > RH9 there. I used my existing PC (P4 CPU, Gigabyte motherboard), > unplugged all existing HDD (w/ Windows XP installed) power so that the > new SATA II HDD was the only HDD connected. I powered on PC after > physical installation, everything seemed ran alright (BIOS could detect > CPU, RAM, DVD drive, HDD, etc). RH9 installation program ran as > expected but terminated at 'Disk Partition Setup', error was 'No drives > found'. > > I haven't done any partition or formatting work to this new SATA II HDD > since I bought it. Why RH9 couldn't detect the drive while BIOS could ? > Do I need to use more updated version of Redhat Linux to enable > installation on this SATA II HDD ?
Red Hat 9 had very little support for SATA controllers, it's way out of date now. You need a newer Linux distribution. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
