sakesensei Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Hi everybody! My 1st post here. I'm kinda newbie and i found an issue refering 10.5 setup. (both 10.5 and 10.4, actually) In the installation, at hard disk select part, the setup wont recognize my hard drive; it recognises pen drives, external hard drives, and cd drive, but not my local one. Why my HD is incompatible? HD is a hitatchi 160gb SATA drive. Pls help me =) tks ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanzeiss Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 what is your mainboard? which chipset? which controller chipset on mainboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philminatz Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Same here. P4c800-E...ICH5R and Promise (tried both). Any ideas? Using Kalyway 10.5.1. Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakesensei Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Mainboard is a Foxconn p4m900-8237a, chipset ID0364.. ? dont know the controller =\ What could possible it be for Setup to ignore my disk ? tks very much for the answers.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philminatz Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Update: I hooked up all hard drives and rebooted the installer...it sees all except the promise controller drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakesensei Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Bump.. Help me plz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahwahman89 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Go into your BIOS options (hook up your disk to he ICH controller) and change mode to either AHCI or IDE - one or the other will work (worked for me at least). What IDE does is it simply makes operating systems 'think' its IDE and does all the hard work driver wise for the OS. Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakesensei Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 My bios is Phoenix 6.0 i didnt really found what you're saying.. but i saw something about controllers and sata masked with ide.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guaterickie Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 yea if you boot in the bios there should be an option to run the hard drives in AHCI mode its disabled by default and i have a different motherboard but the option was under "Integrated Peripherals" good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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