Linux 9 Installation on SATA Hdd.

Redhat 9 is now over two years old, then there
were no sata drives, therefore it has no support
for them.

Please look into Whitebox Linux or Centos Linux
(they are RHEL 3 derivatives (basiaclly ARE
redhat with different logo's and without the
mandatory support contract.)

Those are a bit more modern OS's.

HIH

Kind regards,
Nico Baggus

Unless you are good at compiling your own drivers, you are probably out of luck. I recently went through the same issue but with the latest versions of Fedora (Core 3 at the time) as well as Mandrake (came with a machine that supported SATA drives but the supplied Mandrake did not) - even though SATA was supposed to be supported, only a couple of controllers were supported, not the one on my mother board.

This is one of the things holding back Linux from greater acceptance.

jdg

go to the manufacturer website and download the SATA linux drivers for your harddrive.
during the linux installation, you will be asked whether you want to install additional drivers.
You can then install the drivers you have downloaded and continue with the installation using the SATA HD.

You need to get the vendor drivers for Linux from their website. You also need to get a more modern distro. Red Hat 9 is depricated and no longer supported. You can choose the Fedora tree or go with a different distro (Gentoo is harder to install, but more SATA friendly)

Fedora Core 4 - http://fedora.redhat.com
Gentoo - http://www.gentoo.org

Check out to see if your SATA is supported:
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html

Make it work:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=140767

Good luck...

i have same problem

Hi Santanu
When you boot linux from cd, type the following correctly. " linux : pci=nommconf acpi=off all-generic-ide ". I think it works on
most redhat based linux such as fedora also.

Please inform me if it works. My email is wellrenju@gmail.com.
Be sure to type correctly

Good luck
By Renju

Jani Santanu!!
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got it.....
what yu have to do isss bye a seprate... BARAA CODA HDD.... for linux installation got it...
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take care
Bye

Hello Santanu,

As HDD you specified is SATA so linux doesn't support the SATA HDD unless it finds it drivers. First search for Linux supprortive Driver for SATA HDD, then start your installation.

Regards,
USR...

hi sata hd is proble ?change in urs go bios setup then change the native to lagecy on and save it then linux will detect the hd...