Stephen Soliday wrote: > I want to install FC9 in place of my old Debian 4 > > I have one PATA three SATA hard drives and a SATA DVD-RW on a > ASUS N1L64-SLI WS motherboard with the 0505 bios release > > IDE: > /dev/hda1 ntfs Windows vista boot > /dev/hda2 linux-swap > /dev/hda3 reiserfs debian / > > SATA: > /dev/sda1 & > /dev/sda2 configured with LVM as RAID 1 mounted as /home > /dev/sdc1 ntfs windows data drive > > The problem is that FC9 will not see the ide drive (/dev/hda) it does not > show up in /proc/partitions > I tried Fedora Live 8 with the same result, the kernel sees the SATA drives > but not the IDE > > I have tried various boot parameters such as libata.dma=0 or ide=nodma Hi Stephen, Did you ever fix this? Google has only heard of the N1L64-SLI motherboard from your posts – are you sure that you got the model name right? It’s possible that your PATA drive is plugged into an IDE adapter without libata support. Is the drive plugged into the motherboard, or into a separate PCI card? Is the chipset Nvidia, or something else, like Intel? Normally, I’d expect a motherboard with SLI in the name to be based on an Nvidia chipset, and use that chipset’s on-board PATA support. I can confirm that I’ve never had problems with the on-board PATA on an Asus nForce 4 motherboard since about FC3; I’ve never heard of particular problems with Nvidia’s PATA support, and I doubt Nvidia have done much to change it over the years. But it’s possible that Asus might have used a separate PCI or PCI Express PATA adapter. Recent Intel chipsets don’t have PATA: any motherboard support comes from a separate PCI or PCI Express PATA adapter on the motherboard. In that case, you might have got an unusual chip without decent support. In any case, the output of /sbin/lspci will be instructive. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | "Security question ... What's your dog's maiden name?" aprilcottage.co.uk | -- Peter Gutmann on bad security designs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
