SlackWare 12.0 Dont find SATA drive.

Been a while. You should know by now that nobody listens to Ubuntu users

And plus I only actually get about 3 or 4 words out of every paragraph I read anyway.

And I just thought of one other thing too. It seems as though slackware might be a bit over the top for the original poster, perhaps something a little easier like fedora might be a better option. Let anaconda do all the hard work for you, then when you get a functioning system start playing with stuff like adding\removing drives or partitions and playing with LVM and software RAID. If you totally screw up the system, then sweet! It means you get the learning opportunity to fix it.

I will try to see what is with the jumpers, until then i have to tel my configuration an my PC
- SATA 2 drive 160GB
- Motherboard Asus K8N4-E Deluxe
- Geforce 7300 PCI Expres
- 1 GB DRAM 400
- Creative Live 5.1 PCI
- Windows XP on partition C and D for stuff leaving free space 20 Gb on my first installation

psht ubuntu is only 1 of 3 distros i have installed. i'm kind of a distro slut ;] not my fault it works better than fedora ;P

I made all the changes , change the jumpers configuration and change the cable slot to SATA 1 on my motherboard .
Try again to see if slackwer12 work and the same result.

fdisk /dev/sda....sdh and nothing
[-l] the same result

This is very intristing ...

What next

Maybe try downloading fedora or ubuntu and see if either of them can find the drive. Let their installers do all the partitioning and stuff just to keep it simple for now. If that works then we'll dive deeper into slack.

Next i will try Ubuntu.

shhhh...this might hear you :-X ;]

At least it's not Windblows.

AnarchY, I remember a time when you hated Ubuntu too - you've just been corrupted by the dark side. Please don't tell me one of your other distros is Suse.

I used suse 10.1 for a while after I used old fedora core 4 and others, but then switched back to the ol' stand-by. Ah, fedora....

truuuuuuue story. ^_^


yea, that was when ubuntu sucked ass >.< their 8.04 release is just nice.
but no suse is not in the line up (my wifi doesn't work by default and making it work is too much work thats NOT worth the effort). + the only reason to use suse is their custom menu which has become available-ish for gnome outside of suse, although I've grown to <3 the traditional gnome menus. the others apart from ubuntu are F9 & BT3

In time i have tried Fedora 4 but it seems a little complicated , because is missing a lot of things like mp3, movie player, nvidia driver, ...

Now i thing i will try Ubuntu, but first a have to empty my hard drive , i am afraid if a lose a lot of data ... If Ubuntu resize the drive D i am in big trouble ...

I have hear good things about Ubuntu i will see if is true .

Fedora core 4 is way old and outdated, if you want to try a current fedora I believe the latest release is Fedora 9. I had SATA troubles back when I got into fedora core 4, it was my first distro.

And as far as mp3 and movie players, that is a touchy subject. The licensing to make mp3 and dvd format and stuff legal is kind of wishy washy, but the popular ones are xmms for music and vlc for video. You'll have to install those after you install the operating system.

by default, ubuntu does not have these things either. upon install, ubuntu will prompt you to install the proprietary nvidia driver and it will automate that for you, but you will have to manually install the mp3 & dvd codecs. which is easy, it's just not there automatically.