Re: Laptop hd incorrect

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At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:40:11 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 
> Hello
> 
>   I'm new to linux and am trying to install centos 5.3 on my laptop
> and it has an ata drive but centos does not see the had or cdrom.
> Googleing does not give me much to check. The laptop is a hp-g60 249wm,
> latest bios update. The bios does not have any ability to change drive
> information. The bios basically allows me to only set time, date and
> boot item. Any advice or direction is appreciated!

Is the drive IDE (PATA) or SATA?  If SATA, you will need a proper SATA
driver.  As a *guess* (which worked for the SATA controller on my
desktop motherboard), try adding the 'irqpoll' kernel parameter:

Boot: linux irqpoll

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> Thank you
> Cody
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