[tlinux-users:07973] Re: Satellite A105, Redhat 9.0, "No Drives Found"

Larry Honeycutt wrote:
> Mikkel,
> Well,  it is a SATA drive, thanks! Now I feel silly!  Okay so do we have
> a the fix so I can install R.H. 9.0 on it? In one forum I read something
> about changing the BIOS under SATA operation. I have nothing like that
> in my BIOS. Is there an upgrade for the BIOS?
> Larry
> 
If I remember right, the BIOS change they are talking about is a
setting to make the SATA drive look like a PATA drive. I am guessing
that some controllers have an emulation mode where they behave like
a PATA controller for backward compatibility. I don't believe we
have that option on the A105. (But I have not looked into it too deep.)

You realy should look at installing a newer version of Linux, as
RedHat 9.0 is rather old by Linux standards, and is not going to
support most of the hardware on your laptop. I am playing with FC5,
and I have most of the hardware working. I still need to get suspend
working correctly, and get the extra laptop keys working...

Mikkel
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