Manually selecting a SCSI driver?

[thesun]

Anaconda can't load a driver for my SCSI hard drive. I either have to select the right driver from a list or provide a disk. I've no clue how to even start. My hard drive appears as ATA ST3250310AS and is a Seagate brand. It looks much thinner than other drives, too. Not sure if that matters.

Do I need to pass additional commands at boot time? Is there a specific driver I need to download first to get things to work?

The KDE Live CD works just fine. Should I use that first and install it to the hard drive? Then try a full install again as an upgrade?

[Seve]

Hello:
If the LiveCD works just fine, then try and install from that.
Then use yum to install anything else you like.

Seve

[thesun]

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing, but boy, I'm still scratching my head as to why the DVD iso didn't work. The Live CD install was fine, great hardware support, and even joyous things like sound work!

Thanks for the tip...

[markkuk]

Originally Posted by thesun

Anaconda can't load a driver for my SCSI hard drive.

There aren't any divers for hard disks in Linux, SCSI or otherwise. There are only drivers for SCSI host adapters, SATA controllers or other kinds of disk controllers.

Originally Posted by thesun

My hard drive appears as ATA ST3250310AS and is a Seagate brand.

That's a SATA drive, not SCSI. What's the type of your SATA controller (or the barand and model of your motherboard if it's an on-board controller)?

[thesun]

How do I find info on the type of SATA controller (or brand and model)? At this point it's not an issue since I installed via the Live CD. But it'd be nice to know in the future. Is it on a label somewhere?

[markkuk]

It's in the motherboard manual or on the manufacturer's website. In a working Linux system (like a LiveCD) you can use the /sbin/lspci command, for example:

/sbin/lspci | grep 'SATA'
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)