SATA with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r3

nickeh · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 137

Hi!

After upgrading to gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r3 i can't seem to find my SATA disk.
After a lot of readin i've seen that many had this problem because the change of default SATA dirver. But that doesn't seem to be the problem.
I did use the redundant driver before upgrading but now i have SCSI_SATA and SCSI_SATA_VIA still no progress in getting the disk mounted...

dmesg report that the disk is found but there are no device in /dev:

galenjr · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 10:33 pm Post subject:

I'm havign the same problem except it wont even fidn my sata drives =]. Ive been reading on it.. I belive the sata drives are sda sdb in /dev... If you figure this out please let me know as i am having the same problem =]

Fudor · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Montreal, Ca

Exactly same here... I was gonna start a topic on the subject. I'm using a Sillicon 3112 raid chipset.... I downgraded to my 2.6.7 kernel until there is a fix.

Maybe i'm doing something wrong?! I double checked if the support for the chipset in the kernel was compiled and it is... so I don't know what's the problem.

galenjr · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:55 am Post subject:

Fudor is it finding your SATA drive[s]? I had to enable 2 SATA controllers in my kernel becasue i have 2 different controllers on my motherboard. Now my kernel recognizes them and i have a /dev/sda but i cant mount it or anythign, so im in same place as nickeh.

nickeh do you have a /dev/sda?
if so what about a /dev/sda1?

cause for my hd i have /dev/hdc and /dev/hdc[1-7]

so i figure im supposed to have a /dev/sda1.

Fudor · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Montreal, Ca

Nope the kernel doesnt recognize the drive

usually my drive was recognised as /dev/hde , but now nothing. I also have a
fat partition on my main disk which is recognised, but it refuses to mount that particular partition... saying it doesnt recognize de filesystem, but I did compile fat32 support. All of this is weird. My other kernel is working fine, so I guess there is not really a need to upgrade.

nickeh · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 137

fudor: The problem in your case is probably that you havn't kompiled the SATA support into you kernel.
In 2.6.8 the ata drivers SATA support is disabled by default to encurage people to convert to libata witch you can finde under the SCSI tree in the kernel configuration.

Galenjr:
No, there is no sd** devices what so ever. =/
Seems like the kerneln wont route the drives when using libata...

I recently tried the sata driver found under ATA tree and it works fine and maps my SATA drive to hde but it would be nice to use libata instead since this driver is depricated.

Fudor · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Montreal, Ca

ok thanks nickeh I will give it a try when I get back from school.