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Dear CCP4 users, Last month I posted the following question: > This is an off topic question, but I was wondering someone have faced this > problem before and could give me a hint. > I am trying to install Fedora Core 5 into a new PC, with ASUS motherboard > PC5VDC-X and a single SATA II (80 GByte - Samsung) hard drive. > During linux installation Fedora (more precisely Anaconda) does not > recognize my SATA II hard drive and prompts the following message: I tried to install FC5 in this machine but due to the fact that the p5vdc-x has a via vt8237a southbridge, I was unable to completely install it (eventhought it may be possible if you are a linux expert... and the easiest solution was to replace the SATA II hard drive to an IDE drive. This problem should be fixed in the next linux kernel release (2.6.18), as far as I could see from CCP4 users comment and from the web. Thanks to all... the comments are summarized below. --- Lari Lehtiö Is it P5VDC-X? Are you sure it supports sata II. I don't think so. If not, you can perhaps set a jumper on the hard drive to make it run in "normal sata mode". --- -- William Scott If you get no joy, try installing Ubuntu linux. It is 100% free, has great international support, and runs on pretty much everything. It is a joy to maintain and a great platform not only for Px, but for crystallography of interesting macromolecules as well. Here is some propaganda I made: http://xanana.ucsc.edu/linux/debian_linux.html --- --- David Sidote We had the same problem installing RedHat WS4v1 on our Dell as the WSv1 distro didn't contain the SATA drivers. The solution was to download the drivers from the Dell website first. I know that WS4v2 has the drivers and FC5 is a bit behind so it might not be included yet. Try the ASUS website. --- --- David J. Schuller Are you sure about the model number? I tried looking up your motherboard on Google and came up empty. The only thing I found was one listing for a PC5VDC-MX: http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:_IspVZJnFtgJ:www.morcor.ca/specials/hardware.pdf+PC5VDC-mx&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 with no details listed. On the ASUS site I did find a P5VDC-X motherboard: http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=206&model=1126&modelmenu=1 LGA775 socket with VIA PT880 Ultra chipset + VIA VT8237A Does that sound close? If this is a new product, perhaps the Fedora Core 5 re-spin would be useful: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=122629 This is a re-issue of FC5 with the latest updates as of August 2006, so it should include the latest drivers. If the installation gives you a choice of drivers to try, go for the VIA-specific ones, via_sata or something similar. Here's someone who seems to have encountered a similar problem: http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=73056&enterthread=y "You need to issue the "doscsi" boot parameter. via_sata works fine,..." --- --- Neil First of all check that your HD is detected in the bios - (rule out a pure hardware fault). Next thing to try is set the jumpers on the hard disk to SATA 1 mode and try again - that can also cause problems. If neither of those work then you are probably down to either trying other linux flavours or a different HD (I'm using western digital). Fedora does work on SATA disks and it is very rare for a major name HD to not work straight out of the box. --- --- Tim the p5vdc-x has a via vt8237a southbridge - which should be fixed as of 2.6.18: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6925 I believe using "insmod=ide-generic" as a boot option will help, but then you'll need to be sure the ide-generic module is in your initrd. No linux distribution will get around this problem, unless the patch was grafted into their boot disc kernel. Alternatively, FC6test3 will have the fix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205898 and yet more information: http://marc2.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=115694799810621 --
