Red Hat Installation - missing HD drivers

[alfalf]

Hello all.

Recently I bought computer with Western Digital Hard Disk and I'm having problem finding drivers for it since Linux installation doesn't recognize it as hardware.

Can anyone point me to a solution which drivers for hard disks can I use to install Linux?

PC:
AMD Athlon 64
Asus K8N DeLuxe
SATA WD HD 1200JD
Linux RedHat 9.1

Any help appreciated.

 

[xmb]

try modprobe sata_* and check afterwards with dmesg(8)

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[marsd]

It's your controller and not your drive most probably.
Find out who makes your controller and check their site for information on linux support.

 

[xmb]

For what mars said, check with lspci(8), google will help. If you have a recent kernel, modprobe sata_* should load any sata modules, hopefully including the right one.

 

[alfalf]

Hello and thanks all.

This problem appears during the first installation when kernel image isn't loaded yet (or something like that). Installation recognizes all devices except hard drive during first installation steps and returns message:

No hard drives have been found. You probably need to manually choose device drivers for the installation to succeed...

I also noted that my hard disk is 3rd master -> 1st master/slave don't exist and 2nd master/slave are DVD RW and CD RW devices - which are regularily recoignized.

Could this setting for hd as 3rd master be a source of problem?

I heard somewhere that SATA settings with 3rd master combination in hardware settings are common use since SATA introduction. Is that really case?

Anyhow, installation process offers me an only possibility - to fetch up drivers for hard drive from disk (fd0,hdd,...). WD dowsn't have any such drivers, but nvidia chipset (responsable for SATA on my motherboard) have some drivers, so I will try this out (I have installation CD).

Any further help will be highly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[xmb]

This may be due to a) redhat routine not trying all drivers or (more likley) b) the kernel isnt recent enough.

There has been a thread doing a fedora install with same problems.. he fixed it by running the install with the newest kernel (go 2.6 over 2.4), cant find the thread though.

My debian 2.6.9 kernel contains a module called 'sata_nv', i guess thats the one you'd need.

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