Re: sata drives

[p_s <duke_p@saunalahti.fi>]

p_s wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> > On (29/01/05 23:23), duke_p@saunalahti.fi wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying t o install debian testing to my new laptop, which has 
> > > sata haddrives, and I miserably fail when partitioning.. Installer 
> > > notifies that 'no partionable media found'
> > >
> > > I tried to boot with:
> > > linux26
> >
> >
> > Try expert26  IIRC .... It worked for me ;)
> >
> > Regards
>
> Didn't get far, the list of modules the installer offers here too is all 
> for IDE chipsets.
>
> I googled around and some suggest that turn off the sata from bios, but 
> sadly that's not possible on my bios.

I went through older posts on similar issue, and also there was 
mentioned that using expert26 should sove the case, but tried statrting 
that and then tried  (after some ones hints..)

# best: will show you everything in easily readable format:
sfdisk -l
# bare bones:
cat /proc/partitions
# check out each possible disk separately:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
fdisk -l /dev/sda  # ... etc.
ls -l /proc/ide
cat /proc/scsi/scsi

And basicly came up with no disks.

_d