I'm a newbie. I searched bugzilla for a bug like this and didn't find anything. I've got a Winfast Foxconn NFPIKBAA motherboard with bios raid feature disabled. I have 3 SATA drives attached and 1 IDE DVD-burner. From Windows XP I can see them all (no flames please), but I want to create a dual boot with gentoo. Problem is, when booting from the 2005.1 AMD64 Experimental CD (necessary because all other distributions lock up when they reach the SATA-NV module) I can only ever see the DVD-burner and the first SATA drive. When I run "fdisk -l" I expect to see all drives listed, but only /dev/sda shows up. It is correctly identified as NTFS, but that is little consolation since I can't continue with the install (I don't want to destroy the partition with all of my current data on it).
Why don't you use 2006.0?
This just in. Someone on the forum was kind enough to point out that my mother board supports 8 SATA drives through two chips and that gentoo is probably only seeing the first four. Naturally, as it happens, I had the first drive connected in the first set of four and the other drives in the second set of four so this makes perfect sense. I don't have time to open the machine and switch everything at the moment, I will do that when I get home from work, but it is safe to say this is not a bug per se (although it would certainly make gentoo more friendly if such support for 8-SATA drive systems were added). Thank you for your time, sorry for the hassle, and I look forward to seeing gentoo in all its glory very soon!
