[tlinux-users:07987] Re: Satellite A105, Redhat 9.0, "No Drives Found"

qtparted is a program to partition your hard disk. I had a similar problem
with Mandriva 2006.


On 7/31/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Quoting Larry Honeycutt <[email protected]>:
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> I receive a simalir type of message when I attempted to run suse 10.1
> on G30-116, no disks found.
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> Try running gentoo, its boots and gets the disks correct out of the box.
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> > 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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