[TriLUG] Installing FC3 on a SATA drive

[Richard Ryder]

Why not try FC4?  Being newer, it recognizes more hardware and has many 
other improvements.

Rich

Neil L. Little wrote:

> Being a newbie, I am having some trouble installing FC3 on a SATA drive.
>
> This is a plain vanilla Dell Server box (Power Edge SC430) with just a 
> CD drive and 80GB SATA drive with an intell chipset (Intel ICH7R SATA 
> controller)
>
> During the install the SATA drive does not seem to get recognized when 
> the device probe is going on.
> At the next step when the script presents the devices it found only 
> the NIC card is shown.
> I tell the script to add the device driver for the SATA controller 
> (intell PIIX/ICH ATA controllers (ATA_piix)).
> The next step would be to partition an format the drive but it fails 
> saying that no drives can be found.
>
> I know that the drive and controller is good as I ran hardware 
> diagnostics that passed.
>
> Anyone have any Ideas?
>
> Neil Little, WA4AZL    JARS Forever!!