I am setting up a new system with Abit IP35-Pro (ich9r), 2 WD SATA drives on
the controller. There is also a SATA DVDRW to boot from.
With the default SATA setup (SATA/IDE) the system cannot find any SATA
drive. I was able to boot the install disk, attaching an old IDE CDROM, but
still could not ma
errors), and I was able to install. However, fdisk thinks that the geometry
is "incorrect", and insists on a different one (it says the drives have
476gb rather than 500gb).
it says true. 500 billion bytes which is about 465GB - standard marketing
trick today.
it's all right
I can install
Isaac Mushinsky wrote:
If I set SATA controller to AHCI, the system boots (although with some ACPI
errors), and I was able to install. However, fdisk thinks that the geometry
is "incorrect", and insists on a different one
Sysinstall nearly always says this, and undoubtedly sysinstall is
nearl
On 3/14/08, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Isaac Mushinsky wrote:
>
> >If I set SATA controller to AHCI, the system boots (although with some
> ACPI
> >errors), and I was able to install. However, fdisk thinks that the
> geometry
> >is "incorrect", and insists on a different one
> >
>
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Isaac Mushinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I can install with this AHCI setup, but have no idea what the implications
> are. Is there a known fix for SATA/IDE? Or is AHCI better?
If you can you should set it to AHCI which is a true native SATA mode
instead of
On Friday 14 March 2008 13:57:11 Isaac Mushinsky wrote:
> I am setting up a new system with Abit IP35-Pro (ich9r), 2 WD SATA drives
> on the controller. There is also a SATA DVDRW to boot from.
> With the default SATA setup (SATA/IDE) the system cannot find any SATA
> drive. I was able to boot the
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Isaac Mushinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 14 March 2008 13:57:11 Isaac Mushinsky wrote:
> > I am setting up a new system with Abit IP35-Pro (ich9r), 2 WD SATA
> drives
> > on the controller. There is also a SATA DVDRW to boot from.
> > With the default
