fdisk Maxtor SATA disk -Asus a7n8x Deluxe, Sil 3112 - SOLVED

opensas · Last edited by opensas on Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:25 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi everybody

I've been playing with gentto inside a VmWare running on Xp, and now I want to give it a real try. :lol:

I'm trying to install Gentoo 2004.3 on a Maxtor 6 Y080M0 SCSI Disk Device, with dual boot option with XP

I'm booting the livecd with smp-nofb

A couple of seconds after booting up, I get the folowwing message:

ata1: DMA timeout, stat 0x4
p1 p2 <

then I can´t fdisk /dev/hde (that's what knoppix 3.6 recognizes) nor /dev/sda

I've already tried the doataraid stuff, but it didn't work

Been thru several posts at this forum, and everybody is talking about recompiling the kernel with such and such option, but I'm stuck far before that stage.

Please, help...

P.S Thanks in advance, and take into acount that I'm a gentoo newbie, so don't take any knoledge of my part for granted :oops:

lunatc · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject:

I have the same motherboard with a similar sata disk (maxtor 6Y120M0).

You can try to install from knoppix: do the chroot, make all the partition stuff on hde and so on... and finally compile a 2.6 kernel (gentoo-dev-sources is a good choice).

Make sure that you enable on that kernel...

opensas · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:32 am Post subject:

Thanks lunatc

I saw that gnoppix uses the following

opensas · Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:35 am Post subject:

Hi, it´s me again.

I managed to boot from Knoppix 2.6, I followed the Gentoo Linux/x86 Handbok installation, and then configured the kernel like lunatc told me to.

I Couldn´t find any Support for SATA option inside Device Drivers->ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support, so I decided to disable the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support.

While booting up, I get the following message

lunatc · Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:38 am Post subject:

Make sure you're using a recent 2.6 kernel (gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9....).

On this motherboard I have to enable in the kernel...

opensas · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:44 am Post subject:

¡¡¡Great job, lunatc!!! :mrgreen:

I could finally get my sata disk working with my gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r11 sources.

Thanks a lot.

Now I'll spend some time trying diferent kernel configurations to strip off any unnecesary stuff.

But first I have a little problem to solve.

I can´t access my cdroms drive anymore

Right after booting, Knoppix recognizes them as

opensas · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:51 am Post subject:

Oh!

one other thing that annoyed me

After booting with the LiveCd, I was trying to copy the .config file extracted from /proc/config.gz, but I couldn´t mount the floppy disk.

I had no /dev/fd0, all I had was /dev/fd/0, which didn´t seem to be a block device.

Any ideas?

lunatc · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:12 pm Post subject:

opensas · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:08 am Post subject:

Once more, thanks a lot.

Everything worked exactly like you said :wink:

I hope to have a little time to write down a little reminder of the whole process and post it here, in case it could be useful for anybody having a similar HW configuration.

Saludos

Sas

P.S. I've heard a lot about the responsiveness of the Gentoo community... Ey man, now I can see they weren´t kidding :lol:

lunatc · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:29 pm Post subject:

Me alegro de que haya funcionado todo!

opensas · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:45 am Post subject:

Well, thanks again.

Now I´m having troubles with my integrated Algere PCI modem, but that´s another story. :roll:

Anyway, if anybody happens to hace the same mother, I would really appreciate if you´d have a look at the following thread:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1888783#1888783

As you've seen I proudly edited the subject of this thread to add the SOLVED thing. :mrgreen:

Muchas gracias y saludos

Sas