[mythtv-users] RH9 with SATA drive

[Joel Anderson]

The on-board FastTrak controller is basically tacked onto the PCI bus, just
as if you had an add-in controller card.  For this reason the drives are not
visible from the system BIOS and also to the installer without supporting
drivers to boot with.  Sorry, I can't be much more help than that, as I have
only dealt with this issue when trying to install MS products.  Another
possibility is that if your board also has native SATA built into the south
bridge (as in my 865PE) you can move the drive there and it should be easier
to deal with.  Hope that is at least somewhat helpful to you.

Regards,
Joel Anderson

----- Original Message -----
From: <schepens at shaw.ca>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:15 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] RH9 with SATA drive


> I'm setting up a new SATA hard drive in preparation for installing MythTV,
and I'm wondering whether anybody's accomplished this before!  The drive is
a Seagate, and the motherboard uses Promise FastTrak 376 chip.
>
> When I boot with the Red Hat 9 CD 1, it says I have no installable media
(i.e. it can't find a hard drive).  I tried building the block storage
driver floppy but using this doesn't get me any further.  Do I need kernel
modules in order for this to work or is it just a BIOS configuration / setup
thing?  Or can a SATA drive even be used as a primary disk?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gerald Schepens
>
>


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