SATA 500 GB

[Dana J. Laude]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 16:01, Craig Jackson wrote:
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> That one rings a bell...
> Unfortunately, I could never manage to install Breezy or Dapper in my
> brother's box, which has a similar configuration (AMD64, SATA disks,
> nForce4 chipset, Asus MB).
>
> Both Breezy and Dapper die starting EVMS. I Googled a couple of times
> about it, asked in #ubuntu... and never got/found what the problem
> is.
>
> At last both my brother and I got tired of trying, gave up, and
> installed FC4, which could see the disks and boot as expected. Same
> goes for FC5 (my brother tried it a couple of weeks ago).
>
> I'm almost sure that the problem has to do with EVMS + SATA + nForce4
> (as Fedora doesn't ship with evms) and/or some kernel patch that
> Fedora has and Ubuntu doesn't. But I couldn't figure it out :(
>
> If you manage to get it working... I'd be interested to know about
> your findings!

I'm sure this is a motherboard / chipset / bios / driver problem.
Now, I've never personalley owned a SATA drive yet.. saying that I have 
read some comments on newegg about only having ONE SATA drive works on 
installing the OS then connecting the other afterwords.? Also worth 
noting is it should be hooked up to the 1st SATA drive cable.

Might be worth a try.

Dana

Dana