On 1 Nov 2005 14:30:09 GMT, Christopher W Aiken <cwaiken@nospam.net>
wrote:

>On 2005-11-01, Neil Woods <cnw+usenet@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Christopher W Aiken writes:
>>
>>> I tried to set up a dual boot WinXP / Linux system with Redhat WS 3.0
>>> and the install failed due to Redhat unable to detect any HD to
>>> install on.
>>
>>> I then tried SuSE Prof 9.3 and this install worked OK. The HD was
>>> detected w/o any problems.
>>
>>> I would like to purchase/install Debian (I used several years ago and
>>> really liked better than RH or SuSE) but would like to know if Debian
>>> will fail trying to detect my HD like Redhat did. I don't understand
>>> why RH couldn't detect my HD. My system is only six months old.
>>
>>> All I know about the HD is "ST3160023AS" from the WinXP hardware
>>> profile. My system is a Dell 8400 Pentium 4 Processor 560 with HT.
>>
>> The disk is a Seagate Barracuda 160GB drive. I have the equivalent
>> 120GB drive on my Debian system. I have no idea why RH failed to detect
>> this drive, however if you are concerned then I would recommend you
>> download the Debian Netinst installation CD. If this detects the drive
>> OK, then there is every chance a full Debian installation will, too.
>>
>> You can download the Netinst CD from:
>>
>><URL:http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/>
>>
>
>Will do. Thanks Neil.
>BTW... I bought a magazine at Borders that contained the latest 4 CD
>set of Fedora. Fedora also did not / could not detect my drive
>either.

It's probably not a drive issue but a disk controller issue. You
should do some research on what disk controller (possibably SATA?)
your system is using and get the driver for it to use for which ever
disto during installation.

MT