Re: [Staffslug] Installing onto a SATA drive?
On 03/06/12 15:25, Kevanf1 wrote:
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.
If the SATA connector has a BIOS menu of its own, then make sure that
it's not trying to do some form of RAID craziness. In many fakeRAID
"controllers", Linux will still detect the disks through the controller
and ignore any form of "RAID" metadata, but still, we have no idea what
this controller is or how it's setup -- most do have a BIOS with
settings to be checked, however.
Mint 12 is out now; try that -- or Ubuntu 12.04 -- both will have newer
kernels and thus, the possibility of 'better' hardware support. :)
If nothing else, an Adaptec 1210SA SATA card from Ebay will cost a few
quid and will likely be supported. If you've got a faulty one or one of
the few that just doesn't work right, then large expenditure isn't the
only way out.
Tom