AMD64/SATA/ABit AV8

ChiasmusHF · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 28

I'm trying to get Gentoo up and running, but it's turned out to be a whole lot more difficult than the guide is making it appear. I haven't given up hope yet, but I need help. If this is more appropriate for the AMD64 forum, please move it, but I thought it was best here because it's SATA/modprobe problems (I think).

My system is an Socket 939 AMD64, a Western Digital Raptor SATA hard drive, and an ABit AV8 motherboard. When the AV8 onboard LAN didn't take, I installed a NetGear FA311 ethernet card (more on that later). Aside from a little RAM, that's all I've got going.

When I first started installing Gentoo, I couldn't get it to recognize my onboard LAN, so I punted and grabbed the NetGear FA311 ethernet card. Now I can get it to recognize the ethernet card and register it as eth0 if I modprobe_natsemi, but I can't get a successful ping through ("Network is unreachable").

Worse, I can't get the SATA drive to even be mounted -- the CD-Rom is mounted as /dev/hdc, and there's no /dev/hda to speak of.

If I attempt to boot with "doscsi noapic", it hangs while looking for "sata_sis".

Is there something I'm missing? Do I need to modprobe some module I'm not aware of?

LordBug · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 88

Would need to see output of ifconfig, but I'm guessing your card isn't completetly setup yet.

SATA drives are not /dev/hdX devices. Look for /dev/sdX

pecke01 · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject:

this should do it for the sata disks.

racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

modprobe sata-nv
modprobe sata-sil
modprobe forcedeth

Forcedeth <-- onboard ethernet (probably)

nexus780 · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject:

I couldn't get my SATA (promise something onboard on my MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR Sockat A board) working on the Gentoo LiveCD either, so I installed a temporary Mandrake. Was actually quite easy once I gave up on the LiveCD

See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=274272 for a description

ChiasmusHF · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 28

nexus780 · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject:

What chipset do you have? Might help people to help you

sarge · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 27

U need sata-via for SATA drive and via-velocity for net-card.
Try the newest 2004.3 livecd with 2.6.9 kernel.

I just firin` up my new box with abit AV8 , A64 3000+, 1GB DDR, WDC 200GB SATA drive.
Everything is fine now, after completing setup i`ll try some tests against my old P4 2.6 box.

overkll · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject:

Did you try "modprobe ide-disk" ?

Disks should show up as /dev/hdx. After install, they'll be recognized as /dev/sdx

damonkohler · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 11

modprobe sata-via worked for me so far... Not done with the install yet though

ChiasmusHF · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 28

Jiffy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 86

If you haven't got this to work yet, check https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-267325-highlight-doscsi.html .

I have the same motherboard. You'll need sata-via for the sata controller and sk98lin for the onboard ethernet.

Jiffy