Look at the contents of dmesg to find your SATA disks. These are usually presented as 'SCSI' disks ... backup:~# dmesg [some info clipped] scsi0 : sata_promise scsi1 : sata_promise Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y200M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 7Y250M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 398297088 512-byte hdwr sectors (203928 MB) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 SCSI device sdb: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Hope this helps, Pete On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:16:12AM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: > When I need to install an operating system, I've been running fdisk via > Oralux But I booted the newest machine here at UW-Math and there was no > /dev/hda. They tell me it has serial ATA. How do I get to that device to > fdisk it? -- Pete St. Onge pete@xxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list