found no harddisk SuSE 9.1

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Hi,

I can not install SuSE 9.1 on my dimension 8400 system.
In the SATA mode it did not found my hard-disk by the installation.
To change to the PATA mode is no way for me.

Can anyone help me?

Astonished I see many articles here, who did it with SuSE...

cu, Felix

molamil · Answer

Hi there,

I have the same problem on my 8400. I've tried Fedora 2/RedHat 9 and Knoppix without success: no HD found.

By the way, what's that about changin to PATA?

Hope someone can help us...

See you:

Jorge

ratknight · Answer

Hi,

in the Bios:

Drives->SATA-Operation->Combination

so you can switch to the Parallel-ATA mode.

positive, linux found your device
negative, winXP crash at the start

so you have to change the parameter for every OS

cu, Felix

Timefactor · Answer

hey guys.. it seems to be an issue with the libata and ata_piix modules in the current kernel.. It doesn't recognise the SATA controller on the 8400 unless you switch the drive to combination mode.   Please note that when I did that it corrupted my windows partition and I had to re-install.. so switching to combination mode isn't an option for me.   I've tried Mandrake 10.1, Fedora Core 2, Knoppix, Slackware 10, Debian 3.0 and Sarge(my favorite Distro), Mepis 2004, Gentoo and a few others. All have the same issue. I've even created my own Installer with the latest kernel and kernel patches.   now I've noticed that Dell has kernel modules for Red Hat's Enterprise Edition. However I haven't had any luck getting those to work with any other version. I've currently downloading WhiteboxLinux which is almost identical to Red Hat Enterprise.   My question for Dell here (if they know) is where's their generic Linux SATA drivers?   Siince they got it working on Red Hat Enterprise I'm positive they can release a general Kernel patch... I'd be willing to help with the testing of it of course... but if someone knows something on this.. please let me know via e-mail or by replying to this thread :)   Regards,   Billy

dhurst · Answer

I have three Dell Precision 360n workstations with preinstalled RHEL3 and all are SATA based from Dell. To get other OSes like WinXP or SuSE loaded, I did not have to mess with the BIOS at all. I just shrank the RH partition, repartitioned as needed, and loaded XP Pro or SuSE 9.1 with no problems. You should buy the RH version of the machine and then load XP as needed. Simpler. I haven't put a PATA drive in any of the machines though,
Dow

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