fedora 8 doesn't recognize the disks SATA

[earlati]

My PC has 2 sata disk and an IDE one.
I tried to install fedora 8, but the installation procedure only recognize the disk IDE, while I need to install Fedora on a partition on disk SATA.

Do you have any suggestion about this problem ?

[Dan]

Moved to Installation Help

[40esp]

Did you set the IDE to slave?

[earlati]

I suppose is a slave, bcause with kernel 2.6.21 it read as hdb device ( adn the dvd is master hda ).
Do you think that an ide slave can annoy teh sata drivers '

If may help, I have also tried with mandrake 2008 and suse 10.3 and these distro recognized all the disks.

BTW is there a way to check if IDE is master or slave without remove it from PC ?

[drobbins]

I had the same problem
on my Abit IP-35 motherboard you can set the SATA controller into either IDE mode or AHCI mode, you do this in the BIOS
F8 wouldn't play nice with the IDE mode (default), I had to set it to AHCI
then it worked perfectly
unfortunately AHCI is a problem (solvable) for XP if you need to install it too
try AHCI and see if that fixes it
I tried open-Suse and this problem didn't exist, it's an F8 thing

Dave

[mitchell2345]

if you have a SiS Sata chipset this will happen with F8. When the installer is loading it will hang at sis sata for a while then continue. This is a known bug. Right now the only work around is to install F7 then yum upgrade to F8 where in the latest updates its fixed.

mitchell

[earlati]

thanks for the answers.
I think it' s better if I wait for a more consistent revision.