On Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:39 AM GMT, hoosierbill1234 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a computer with 3 hard drives--two IDE drives with 20 GB each > and one 160GB SATA drive that is blank. I use the 20GB drives for > general storage. Would like to load Debian Sarge onto the SATA drive. > (The SATA drive is a removable hard drive. I have an identical > removable SATA drive with Win XP on it.) > > When I start the installer sequence for Debian Sarge from my DVD > drive, it tells me about the two IDE drives, but does not identify the > SATA drive. The partitioning page of the installer does not give me > the option to partition and install anything on the SATA drive and so > far as I can tell its existence isn't recognized by the installer. > > The SATA drive is new, and I believe that it is neither formatted nor > partitioned. > > Is there a way I can get my Debian Sarge installer to find my SATA > drive? > > My computer has a VIA SATA RAID controller that controls the SATA > drive. > Not that I know how to do this, but you should first have the drivers for the SATA controller, because that's what the OS will deal with when trying to access your SATA drive. I suggest googling for Debian VIA SATA controller (and probably the controller chip model) to find how to do this. Regards, IraqiGeek www.iraqigeek.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> AIDS in India: A "lurking bomb." Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/9QUssC/lzNLAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
