Re: [Staffslug] Installing onto a SATA drive?

I have booted into clonezilla or gparted to see if that picks up the drives. These two utilities detect almost any drives hooked up to the system, be it pci, usb, scsi etc. At least that would confirm that the motherboard and pci sata adapter are actually working correctly. Walt -----Original Message----- From: staffslug-bounces(a)staffslug.org.uk [mailto:staffslug-bounces@staffslug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Kevanf1 Sent: 03 June 2012 15:25 To: Staffslug Mailing List Subject: [Staffslug] Installing onto a SATA drive? I have an oldish Gigabyte board that has a small SATA connector board (PCI) attached to it. I've popped a Mint disk (11 I think which I know is old now) in just to try and install to the 500gb SATA drive that is hooked up. Nothing. No sign of the SATA drive anywhere. Should I be doing anything different? I know that with MS Windows I need to halt the install near the beginning and add the relevant drivers but I didn't expect to have to do this with Linux. Or do I? Any ideas? I don't want to but ultimately I may end up having to buy :( a new mobo with fully built in SATA capability. This would also entail buying new RAM, new optical drives..... you see why I don't want to do this. -- ============================================== Kevan Linux user #373362 Staffordshire ********************************************** www.freeworld-recycling.org 'Just Free it.' ********************************************** _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://server.bytestream.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug