sata drive support on fc5

[larka06]

When I install fc5 it says, at one point under SCSI, installing via sata driver. After that I go through the setup to the point of disk layout and there is no sata or SCSI. There is no raid for my sata drive. I have went and finished the setup thinking I can find it later ahhhhh, not true. Has anyone been able to setup there sata drive under fc5? If so can you tell me what I need to do to access this drive. I have been all over the web and have not found anything. I did go to via and found a driver for fc4 but, I am so impressed with fc5 I do not want to go back to fc4. I am working a MicroStar KM4M-V that has the 8237 chipset with an AMD 3000+ processor and 1gig of memory.
Thanks for you time and help

[FeRoPi]

I have a K8MM ILSR (K8M800 chipset with VT8237 south bridge)based computer, a Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 754) procesor, 512 MB of RAM @ 400 MHz, 160 GB SATA disk. When I first tried to mount the windows partition I found that instead of having a SATA disk, system says that I have a SCSI disk. I cannot install AMSN, flash and many other programs, I also searched the VIA-ARENA web site and found FC4 drivers only. Is there any other way to configure it? Can anyone help us?

[larka06]

FeRoPi
I do not know much about SCSI since I have never owned or worked on one but, I have read in the windows 2000Pro you have to give the drive a number. I do not know if a sata drive would also need a number or not. It maybe something worth looking into. I am not sure where I read that at or how to do it but, I am sure you can get that info at the microsoft web site.

[FeRoPi]

That didn't solved the problem, I've read lots of forums trying to solve similar problems but all I could find was that many people that bought mother boards with a VIA chipset, also have this kind of problems. I downloaded Debian sarge for 64-bit based systems and was only able to install it in text mode; Debian sarge for 32-bit systems freezed while detecting hard disk, I tried to install the Mandriva 2006 Free 32-bit edition but it also got freezed and I had to reboot my Pc many times; when I tried to install Fedora Core 4 64-bit edition I could perform a decent installation so I though that installing Fedora Core 5 would be a good idea but I got many errors during installation. Once ruuning the OS I wasn't able to mount NTFS partitions, I tried to install every tool needed (from http://www.linux-ntfs.org/) but I wasn't able to install anything, not even AMSN or the Flash pulg-in for Mozilla. After all this problem I downloaded Mandriva 2006 Free, but the 64-bit edition and all my problems are solved. I can read all my NTFS partitions, I can install all I need, graphical enviroment works perfect. So my advise is that people that have problems with VIA chipsets (for computer with 64-bit processors) download Mandriva 2006 Free or wait for the next release of Fedora or Debian. If anyone knows of another distro that works fine with VIA chipsets, please let me know. Thank you for the help. I hope this can helps you.