SATA detection

[Tony Alfrey]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 21:09 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>>>> OK, I'm trying to install blag linux, which has an installer that
>>>>>> searches for drives.  It does not find my SATA drive controller.  But
>>>>>> the bios sees the controller mounted on the PCI buss and announces the
>>>>>> two drives I installed.  When I set the bios up on this Gigabyte
>>>>>> motherboard to select boot order, it offers me a list of possible boot
>>>>>> devices.  It does not offer a "plug-in controller" like the bios on my
>>>>>> intel MB, but it does offer a SCSI option.  I assume that this must be
>>>>>> the same as a plug-in controller.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I cannot tell if this is a problem with the installer not knowing to
>>>>>> look for a SCSI controller or if this is a bios problem.
>>>>> Is the SATA controller not being detected, or is the disk attached to it
>>>>> not being detected?
>>>>>
>>>> When the installer looks for hard drives, it cannot find those attached
>>>> to the controller.  It does not separately talk about seeing a
>>>> controller or disks, it just cannot find disks.
>>> Does the controller detect the disk during POST?
>> I don't know what is POST.
> 
> During boot, when all those bios comments flash and scroll by at
> 400mph... if you're lucky you can hit Pause/Break 

Are these Function keys? ( like F5, F6, etc)



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