<div dir="ltr">I want to install FC9 in place of my old Debian 4<br><br>I have one PATA three SATA hard drives and a SATA DVD-RW on a<br>ASUS N1L64-SLI WS motherboard with the 0505 bios release<br><br>IDE:<br>/dev/hda1 ntfs Windows vista boot<br>
/dev/hda2 linux-swap<br>/dev/hda3 reiserfs debian /<br><br>SATA:<br>/dev/sda1 & <br>/dev/sda2 configured with LVM as RAID 1 mounted as /home<br>/dev/sdc1 ntfs windows data drive<br><br>The problem is that FC9 will not see the ide drive (/dev/hda) it does not show up in /proc/partitions<br>
I tried Fedora Live 8 with the same result, the kernel sees the SATA drives but not the IDE<br><br>I have tried various boot parameters such as libata.dma=0 or ide=nodma<br><br>I do not think it is a BIOS problem because I am running the older Linux just fine. Also, various live CD's such as<br>
Knopix and SLAX see all four drives.<br><br>I can always add another SATA drive just for the Linux OS, but I would rather see this problem solved first.<br><br><br><br><br><br></div>