RedHat can't find hard drives!!!

[JavaTurkey]

I'm installing RedHat 7.2 on two identical new computers. They both have two IDE hard drives, on an Intel motherboard. However, RedHat will not detect them, and exits the installation after only a few steps. Currently, there are not partitions on either drive. The weird thing is I attemped a Windows 2000 install to see if it would detect them, and it didn't either. Any Ideas? Thanks...

 

[jaymzter]

when you boot, does the bios see them?

 

[JavaTurkey]

Sorry, should have explained better. Yes, the BIOS sees them great. When I bought the boxes, they had DOS on them, and were working great.

 

[degurly]

you may need to install the driver to detect the hard drive first. Is this a DELL? I had a similar issue installing 7.2 on a PowerEdge 1650.

once the Linux begins booting up with the first cd, at the boot prompt type: expert noprobe
When prompted for the driver disk say: No
When prompted for the driver to load choose: aacraid and checkthe box for passing extra options to the driver.
The next screen you will need the following:
aacraid_pciid=0x1028,0xa,0x1028,0x011b
it should then proceeds with the normal startup

you can also find these steps via the dell site

hope this helps! -denise

 

[degurly]

Actually I setup SCSI...didnt even realize.
sorry -denise

 

[fluid11]

Are the drives on any kind of special IDE controller? Maybe a PCI IDE controller or something a little different? If you boot to DOS, does fdisk see the drives?


ChrisP