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WD 80 gb ata hdd not detected by RH9

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choudang
choudang Original post #1
Aug 26, 2006 at 9:38 PM
i have a HP d290 PC which one have a WD 80 GB ATA HDD. But when i tried to install RedHat 9 and RedHat Ent Client, it was not detected. wht should i do. but it was detected by Fedora 4
praka123
Aug 26, 2006 at 10:32 PM
RH9 and RHEL3 are based on linux kernel 2.4 which will not support sata detection.try RHEL4 or FC5 or Debian Etch
choudang
Aug 27, 2006 at 9:37 AM
prakash kerala said:
RH9 and RHEL3 are based on linux kernel 2.4 which will not support sata detection.try RHEL4 or FC5 or Debian Etch


NOT SATA ..... PATA
mediator
Aug 27, 2006 at 10:53 AM
try "linux install noprobe".........mine wasnt detected too with FC5! But was installed easily afterwards with this.