[tlinux-users:07984] Re: Satellite A105, Redhat 9.0, "No Drives Found"

Quoting Larry Honeycutt <[email protected]>:

I receive a simalir type of message when I attempted to run suse 10.1 
on G30-116, no disks found.

Try running gentoo, its boots and gets the disks correct out of the box.


> 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
>
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Larry Honeycutt wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>> After picking the installation type in RedHat 9, I get the message:
>>> No Drives Found -- an error has occurred - no valid devices were found
>>> on which to create new file systems..........
>>> I assume this is a driver problem since the laptop is newer than the
>>> installation type. The drives are not SATA but Toshiba MK1032 GSX-S1.
>>> Help anyone?? Thanks,
>>> larryh
>>>
>>>
>> Are you sure that isn't a SATA drive? I have a A105 and it has a
>> SATA drive. When I did a Google search on the MK1032GSX drive, they
>> all showed up as SATA drives.
>>
>> Mikkel
>>
>
>


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