[janculis]

Hello!
I have some problem with Slackware 10.1 and my 3 Seagate BARRACUDA 7200.7 200GB SERIAL ATA/150 disks.
Linux cannot see them all.
So, i have Celeron-2,5GHz (m/b ASUS P5LD2-VM, chipset Intel 945G, FSB 1066/800/533, 4x DIMM slots, 1xPCI-E x16, 1x PCI-E x1, 1x UltraDMA 100/66/33, 4x Serial ATA, 8x USB) / RAM 2 x 256MB DDR-400 Kingston/ HDD 3x 200Gb Seagate SATA + HDD cooler/ CD-ROM 52x/ Video Card onboard/ Sound Card onboard/ Ethernet Card onboard/ computer and I wanted to install my LINUX. It has 2.4.29 kernel.
In some forums i readed that Linux has now 2.6.x kernel. I just started downloaded it, but where can i put it? What I must do with whis kernel?
I have not IDE.
I have a little bit expierence with linux, i can mount disks, but how to mount SATA disks?
I would be very happy, if some one can help me with my big problem...

[janculis]

I found the problem!
linux cannot see unpartition disks! So I put Windows Server 2003, formated them and Linux now can see disk!

[codejockey]

Excellent work, and thank you very much for posting the solution to your problem. With your help, we all learn.

[kgfolsom]

A little late but I thought I would add this since it worked on a couple Intel manufactured 915 MB and two 945MB's with Western Digital 320 GB drives.

Slackware 10.1 has the ability to load a different Kernel at when booting off the CD-ROM vs the default bare.i. When asked for the kernel instead of just using the default use the sata.i kernel. Technically I believe it's scsi but it appears to work fine for SATA drives. Once it loads and you log in you should be able to use the command "fdisk /dev/sda" You might get a warning about the number of cylinders being a problem in older OS's but skip that. Once in FDisk you should be able to create your primary partitions and then designate one of them the boot partition. "M" will display the options available. Once that's done "setup" will format the partions for you.

Ken