Re: Installing Debian sarge on SATA

Deepak Mohan said on Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:04:45AM -0500,:

 >  I have a compaq SR-1650Nx with AMD Athlon 64 3500+/ 250GB SATA HDD
 > i am  trying to install  debain sarge in it....unfortunately  it is
 > not detecting my  HDD. the PC doesnt come with  a driver disk.  the
 > chipset is ATi. I tried installing  fedora core 3 but with the same
 > result

Please try using an earlier version of (3.2) knoppix. :)

This look like a chipset problem; and not a problem with the distro. 
 
 > Where will i find the correseponding SATA drivers?

ATI has some  of the worst support for free software  when it comes to
providing drivers.

What is the output of lspci  when you boot from the install disk? (try
ctrl + alt  + F2, and hit enter). Look for  lines containing the words
SATA and/or RAID.  This should give info about the exact chipset used.
Please get back to the list.

If the chipset  is actually supported in la  later kernel version, you
can get a new installer from 
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/amd64/ and install
the current testing.

-- 
Mahesh T. Pai

Free Software is a misnomer.
You should say `Liberated User'.
                              -me