sata woes

Hack_Benjamin · Apprentice Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 158

No matter which livecd i use i cannot seem to get it to recognise my sata hdd- just about every other version of linux i've used recognises it but gentoo doesnt.
i looked in dmesg and its not there (well it was gor the gentoo kernel in 2004.1 but it didnt let me write to either it or my standard eide hdd.

any ideas how to go about getting it to come up so i can fdisk it?

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Casper Gasper · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:21 pm Post subject:

I've found I often need to play with the BIOS settings to get SATA working with linux -- if you have any SATA entries there, try changing them to 'compatible' or something similar.

hth,

Casper.

PiniHadad · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 69

You're going to have to provide more info. What sata controller are you using? What's the most recent version of the livecd you've tried? Does the livecd set up your networking ok? If so, could you post the dmesg? Also, if you have another distro installed where it does work could you please post the dmesg from that one? If not, maybe you could try knoppix and if that works post the dmesg from there? I don't really understand the 2nd sentence after the (. Please rephrase it.

PiniHadad · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 69

PiniHadad · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 69

One more thing :-)

This belongs in Kernel & Hardware. You should be more careful about where you post in the future.

pilla · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:

Moved from N&S
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tyr · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:37 pm Post subject: modprobe?

You may need to 'modprobe' the module for the sata card you're using.

Have a look in /lib/modules/(kernel-ver)/kernel/drivers/scsi and see if there's a driver for the card.

Eg I had to 'modprobe sata_promise' to get it working. You should then find the device at /dev/sda