Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/08/2013 04:26 AM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: It does not let me create or delete RAID volumes. I have a 30G SSD disk marked as "Cache Disk" and a 2TB disk marked as "Non-RAID Disk". The SSD Disk is marked as RAID0(Cached) Look again; the first two options are to create or delete. -- users

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-08 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
For whoever buys a Dell XPS 8700 in the future: - Disable secure boot - Set onboard storage to AHCI instead of RAID; save BIOS settings and reboot - Zero first and last sector of the 2T drive (in my case, /dev/sda: fdisk -s /dev/sda This gives the number of sectors dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda b

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/08/13 20:51, Ed Greshko wrote: > FWIW, the "0" shows as non-RAID so it really should not have any effect. On the inability to delete a RAID volume that is -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/08/13 20:26, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: > On 8 Nov 2013, at 1:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >>> Interesting suggestion: it didn't work, but at least I got the message that >>> the "Disk sda, sdb contain BIOS RAID metadata, but are not part of any >>> recognized BIOS RAID set. Ignoring disks sda,

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-08 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On 8 Nov 2013, at 1:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Interesting suggestion: it didn't work, but at least I got the message that >> the "Disk sda, sdb contain BIOS RAID metadata, but are not part of any >> recognized BIOS RAID set. Ignoring disks sda, sdb". >> >> Does that rings a bell to anybody?

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/08/13 18:43, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: > On 7 Nov 2013, at 7:49 PM, Dan Thurman wrote: > >> Try LiveCD Fedora 17, do minimal install to your >> root and boot partition. fedup to 18, then fedup >> to 19. Anaconda F18+ does not work for me. > Interesting suggestion: it didn't work, but at least

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-08 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On 7 Nov 2013, at 7:49 PM, Dan Thurman wrote: > Try LiveCD Fedora 17, do minimal install to your > root and boot partition. fedup to 18, then fedup > to 19. Anaconda F18+ does not work for me. Interesting suggestion: it didn't work, but at least I got the message that the "Disk sda, sdb contain

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-07 Thread Dan Thurman
On 11/07/2013 12:35 AM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: I hope someone as suggestions about this. The Dell XPS 8700 is a brand-new model using the i7-4770. The 8700 has a 2T HD and a 32GB SSD that is supposed to act as a cache. I've been trying to install Fedora, only to discover that no hard disks ar

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-07 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On 7 Nov 2013, at 11:19 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > Since it is a brand new model, it may be an issue with missing hardware > drivers. Could you provide the output from dmesg that you have referred to. Oh, an important thing. I can happily see the drives with fdisk. I opened them and removed th

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-07 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
On 7 Nov 2013, at 11:19 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > On 11/07/2013 02:05 PM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: > Since it is a brand new model, it may be an issue with missing hardware > drivers. Could you provide the output from dmesg that you have referred to. It's included in this message. > You could

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:49:07 +0530 Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > On 11/07/2013 02:05 PM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: > > I hope someone as suggestions about this. The Dell XPS 8700 is a > > brand-new model using the i7-4770. The 8700 has a 2T HD and a > > 32GB SSD that is supposed to act as a cache. > > y

Re: Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-07 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 11/07/2013 02:05 PM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote: > I hope someone as suggestions about this. The Dell XPS 8700 is a brand-new > model using the i7-4770. The 8700 has a 2T HD and a 32GB SSD that is supposed > to act as a cache. > > I've been trying to install Fedora, only to discover that no hard

Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

2013-11-07 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
I hope someone as suggestions about this. The Dell XPS 8700 is a brand-new model using the i7-4770. The 8700 has a 2T HD and a 32GB SSD that is supposed to act as a cache. I've been trying to install Fedora, only to discover that no hard disks are visible to the installer. They can be found in