RedHat 9 SATA Drive Not Recognised

Stretch · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:27

I'm trying to install red hat 9 on an old machine. It's got a MSI K8N SLI Platinum Motherboard and a 120GB Samsung spin point SATA HD. The installation get to a point and tells me it can't find any hard drives. Any idea how I can get this working?

Stretch · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:32

Stoned_SpaZZZ said:
Does Red Hat 9 even have SATA kernel modules ?

No idea, but redhat 8.0 managed to get further than this.

Stretch · 25 Mar 2010 at 23:47

deano said:
put the sata controller into compatibility mode. Why use RedHat 9? try Centos 5

No real reason to use redhat, it's just what I’ve used in the past only on different hardware. I'm building an asterisk pbx so I'm open to suggestions. What's the advantaged of using Centos 5? I've heard it's good for asterisk too.

How would one "put the sata controller into compatibility mode?"

Stretch · 26 Mar 2010 at 09:34

BigglesPiP said:
It wasn't released almost 6 years ago and it supports your hardware?

Didn't realise it was that old now. I'll give Centos a go.