SlackWare 12.0 Dont find SATA drive.

I whant a second OS slackware 12.0 , i have installed on my pc win xp leaving free space 20gb on my SATA 160gb and now i want to install linux

I have a problem with installation i can't find the SATA disk.
Next are pictures of the problem...
http://s520.photobucket.com/albums/w324/s7efanb777/

If there is someoane who knows what is the problem , please help.

i'm wondering if the problem is that the drive is on the second sata channel and not the first? you could try plugging it in to the first channel and seeing if slackware finds it.

also, what does the command produce? you tried accessing drives but you didn't have it list the drives available for you :]

I will try to see if it works...

I have tried to do but no succes



Please advise,.
If i move my drive to SATA 1- i will have to reinstall ALL?

Thank to all that answer..

Sorry this is the last images

Try fdisk /dev/sda and if that doesn't work then fdisk /dev/sdb and so on until it works. It should find the drive pretty quick, but based on your -l output, I am going to ask the obvious question....... The hard drive(s) are properly plugged in and everything right?

slash detected in the BIOS.?
i'm wondering if slackware is dumb & you have to do /sbin/fdisk -l ?
or maybe enter: su - (make note of the -)
and then try executing the fdisk command.
although going kcotma's route should work just as well, and possibly faster :-X lol

That's rather odd, "fdisk -l" *should* show the size and partition tables of any block device seen by the system (including flash drives). Are you by chance plugged into a SATA 1 slot with a SATA 2 drive set to 3.0Gps instead of 1.5Gps? Look for a jumper on the drive and, if so, thank the powers that be that you didn't fry your hard drive's controller (that is, if you didn't).

If that's not the answer here, you need to check your hardware anyway. Does the drive show in your BIOS?

If all this looks good to you, tell us what motherboard and hard drive you have.

Thank's to all for your answers ....

kc0tma
First i try -- fdisk /dev/sda -- sdb.....sdh,sdg,sdi

it's not working.

this213
Are you by chance plugged into a SATA 1 slot with a SATA 2 drive set to 3.0Gps instead of 1.5Gps?
I believe that my motherboard ( ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe) not support SATA2 but the drive is for shore SATA 2.
- hard drive MAXTOR STM3160811AS (160GB)

---Look for a jumper on the drive and, if so, thank the powers that be that you didn't fry your hard drive's controller (that is, if you didn't)---

How to put the jumpers correctly?

there's a little tiny jumper on 4 pins on the back of the hard drive. If it's a SATA 2 drive, you DEFINITELY NEED to have that set to jump the left two pins (if looking at the side the pins are on with the label up). I'm really not even sure of how your board is reading that drive, but if it's in 3.0 mode, CR205 (behind the data pins on the drive's controller board) is well known (by me) to flat out blow if connected to a 1.5 port (I've seen no less than a dozen instances first hand).

The label itself should also have the proper settings listed on it:




*edit: BTW, your BIOS post shows that your drive is /dev/sdb

I think I'd plug the drive into the first SATA master on the motherboard too. It probably won't affect anything, but I'm just a little bit obsessive about plugging stuff into things in the right order and whatnot.

Here Here!

thats what i suggested 12 posts ago
he was supposed to try & tell us if it worked. lol