Fedora 3 cannot see SATA?

[mustang81234]

I post my question in other linux forums but didn't get any answers. I am trying my luck here.
When installing, Fedora 3 says no hard drives found and exit.
System: Dell 8400
c: Seagate SATA 160G with XP installed.
f: SATA 120G converted from an Ultra ATA from Seagate by a "bridge board" from SIIG, Inc.
These drives are shown in BIOS, but FC3 just cannot see them.
Help would be greatly appreciated! Happy holidays!

 

[zeland]

What happens if you take out the "bridge board" and just use a regular PATA drive? Can fc3 find a drive then?


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[mustang81234]

Thanks zeland!! Actually I just finally installed FC3! Dell Dimension 8400 bios has 4 options for SATA: 1)Raid Autodetect/AHCI; 2) Raid Autodetect/ATA; 3)Raid on; 4) Combination (SATA/PATA). It defaults to 1) and XP was installed using 1). Using 1) no hard drives (c: and fcan be seen by FC3. That was the situation I was asking help. Changing it to 4) hard drive c: can be seen by FC3 but my empty 2nd hard drive (f cannot be seen. Using 2) FC3 can see both c: and f: and thus I installed FC3 using 2) successfully. However, I cannot switch back to 1) to boot to FC3. I cannot use 2) to boot to XP either, XP shuts down due to system errors.
Now, I have to switch in bios to 1) to use XP and 2) to use FC3.
I didn't think of removing "bridge board" though. If I couldn't install FC3, I might try that way as well. Thanks anyway zeland!!

 

[fdalmoro]

Have you tried starting over and re-installing XP with 2? Maybe XP won't boot right now because it was installed in 1. If you re-install XP in 2 then re-install FC in 2 also you should be ok.

Hope it helps

Fernando

 

[mustang81234]

i didn't try re-install xp using 2) because sata is the one i want to use because it is much fast. you're probabaly right. but i'd like to wait for fedora 4 to solve this ahci problem. i already upgrade to kernel-2.6.9-1.681 which claimed that it solved ahci problem, but i still need to do the bios switching in order to boot to xp uswing 1) and fc3 using 2).