Guest linux-starter Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 I have installed Mandriva Spring 2007.1 Free edition. My system contains 2 hard drives. 1. 80GB IDE ( hda1 20GB NTFS, hda5 8GB ext3, hda6 4GB swap, hda7 46GB ext3 ) 2. 250 GB SATA Both drives are recognised in the BIOS, Window 2000 and Ubuntu live CD. The SATA drive is not recognised in Mandriva. Harddrake only finds hda which is the 80GB IDE drive. Setup IDE 0 Master 80GB Seagate IDE 1 Master DVD RAM IDE 1 Slave CD_RW IDE 2 SATA 250GN Samsung Motherboard is MSI K9VGM-V and the SATA controller is identified with the sata_via module. I have read that the newer VIA chipset should use the ACHI module but I do not know how to change this or if this will have any effect. Please suggest a method to get Mandriva to find the disk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 One thing you can try is changing any BIOS settings related to the SATA controller. Sometimes this resolves such problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Set your bios to identify the sata drives as ide. It may indicate something like turn on raid but have individual control of the sata drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest linux-starter Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Thanks for your help. I have tried changing the BIOS. I have set it to RAID and it is now set to IDE but neither seemed to make a difference. I can change the boot order but at present if I boot from the 80GB IDE drive it starts Mandriva and if I boot from the 250GB SATA it starts Windows 2000. Any other suggestions would be gratefully accepted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 For clarity, the installer is not detecting the sata drive after you have made the changes? Despite being "ide", the drive will still be "sdx" in its form, rather then "hdx." Try mounting the drive. "mount /dev/sda /mnt/windows" where root has created a mount point in /mnt called "windows." Syntax for /etc/fstab may be something like "/dev/sda /mnt/windows ntfs auto 0 0" if you have plugged into sata0 on your board. If not, then sata1 would probably be sdb, sata 2 would be sdc, and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Manfred@GothamCity Posted October 31, 2007 Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 Thanks for your help. I have tried changing the BIOS. I have set it to RAID and it is now set to IDE but neither seemed to make a difference. I can change the boot order but at present if I boot from the 80GB IDE drive it starts Mandriva and if I boot from the 250GB SATA it starts Windows 2000. Any other suggestions would be gratefully accepted. I´m a starter too, and passed the same problem... 1. Uppgrade your BIOS 2. Load optimized Defaults in BIOS (chooses Sata & Raid) That did the trick for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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