[conspire] I get mail (SATA again)

[Rick Moen]

Peter, this is the same problem you assisted with, earlier.  Good
job on that, by the way.

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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:04:20 +0100 (BST)
From: de Oracle <oracle_ankru at yahoo.co.uk>
To: rick at linuxmafia.com
Subject: About SATA Drive
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Dear Sir,
           Recently I bought a new machine with
Seagate SATA hard drive. Firts I have inatalled
windows xp. The I started intall linux. But When start
the installation it says cannot find hard device. I
tried several times but result was same. My main board
is intel 915. Please give me a answer by saing how to
install linux in my hard.
                           Thank you,
                                    Kasun

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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:59:17 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: de Oracle <oracle_ankru at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: About SATA Drive

Quoting de Oracle (oracle_ankru at yahoo.co.uk):

> Recently I bought a new machine with Seagate SATA hard drive. Firts I
> have inatalled windows xp. The I started intall linux. But When start
> the installation it says cannot find hard device. I tried several
> times but result was same. My main board is intel 915. Please give me
> a answer by saing how to install linux in my hard.

Kasun, I'm not a free-of-charge technical helpdesk.  You should ask
questions like this on a Linux user group mailing list, or on a Linux
newsgroup like comp.os.linux.hardware.

Here's how you can research your own problem:

The I/O ports on a motherboard (such as the SATA ports) are contained
within the "south bridge" section -- as opposed to the "north bridge"
section that contains your CPU and RAM.  So, search Google for:

  "Intel 915" "south bridge" sata

That reveals that your motherboard's south bridge uses a ICH6-R SATA 
chip, defaulting to AHCI mode.  Please use that information in
conjunction with the chipset details on my page, to solve your problem.

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