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Bug#479486: marked as done (Debian installer not recognising SATA hard-drive)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:30 +0000
with message-id <E1OtBnq-0005iU-1F@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing old installation report #479486
has caused the Debian Bug report #479486,
regarding Debian installer not recognising SATA hard-drive
to be marked as done.

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Package:Debian Installer DVD Iso Image Disc 1
Version: 40r3
 
Dear Sir/Madam,
 
I am a Linux/ Debian newbie and only just installed my first Linux system over the weekend.  To give you a little feedback, I wanted to report a problem I found with the installer not finding my SATA drive.
 
Problem description:  As the installer would proceed, "Drive Detection" would not work and would not find my HDD.   This then would prevent partitioning and further installation
 
System:
 
ASUS P5KPL-VM Motherboard
Intel E2160 Proceesor
DDR2 2G-800 Kingston RAM module
ASUS VENTO TA-863 Case
Western.Digital. SATA 500G HDD
Asus Light Scribe DVD/CD drive (IDE)
 
 
Resolution:
 
Setting the Bios\IDE Configuration settings to "compatible" mode from the default "Enhanced" and moving the SATA cable from SATA1 to SATA2 on the MB made the SATA drive appear as a Secondary IDE master (after the DVD drive).  The boot order was then adjusted and the system worked and Linux installed on the HDD.
 
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I don't know if the setting can now be reversed but I will try this over the next few days.  Also, the mouse is very unresponsive but that's because I am running it through the USB port.  I am sure that if I put the USB-> PS/2 adaptor in, the device will work fine.  BTW, none of the network drivers will work with this motherboard out of the installer., but ASUS do have a driver package for linux to support the network card.
 
I hope you can add this to your problems data base.
 
Regards

Simon
 
 
Section Manager
Robert Bosch Australia Pty. Ltd.
Automotive Electronics
RBAU-AE/EBS2
1555 Centre Rd, Clayton, Victoria, Australia 3169
mailto: simon.casey@au.bosch.com
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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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