FC3 installer can't detect 250GB sata drive

[Oliver Leitner]

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tlviewer wrote:

| Oliver Leitner wrote:
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|> | hello, | | System: AOpen i865gm-IL board 512 OZ RAM x2 Intel P4
|> 3.0 Ghz HT | | With a WD2500JD sata drive, the FC3 (Nov 2004)
|> installer fails when |  detecting this drive -- throwing a bug
|> error box. | | any ideas? | | regards, tlviewer
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|> Dear tlviewer, im not big into sata things, but... what is the
|> name of the sata chipset on the board?
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| Oliver, thanks for such a quick reply.
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| All Intel. Its 865 chipset, with SATA controller: ICH5 (non raid)
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| regards, tlviewer
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ok, thx for the information

here i have what i just found on goolge about it, and it looks promising:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

tell me if that one helps you some further...

Greetings
Oliver Leitner
Technical Staff
http://www.shells.at
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