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uncleringo
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:29 am Post subject: SATA hd missing (/dev/sda) with livecd [RESOLVED] |
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I've just put together a brand spanking new machine with a nice 25GB maxtor sata harddrive but try as I may I can't get the appropriate device to show up for it. I'm booting from the 2005.1 livecd. I'm downloading the 2005.0 livecd to try but i don't have much hope of it working.
Reading other posts here it seems the hd should show up as a scsi device, namely /dev/sda. But when i 'ls /dev/' I don't get any sd* devices. I do get hda, which is my dvd drive, but nothing else resembling my hd. I've very sad. Didn't realise that this might have been an issue before I bought the hd.
Anyone any ideas?
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mark_alec
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:44 am Post subject: |
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What motherboard and SATA adapter are you using?
Please post the contents of dmesg to see if the kernel is even detecting the disk. |
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uncleringo
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:00 am Post subject: |
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The motherboard is an ASRock K8upgrade 1689 (AMD Sempron CPU).
I've no idea what the SATA adapter is (how do I find out?)
The drive shows up in dmesg:
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libata version 1.11 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF80 ctl 0xF02 bmdma 0xEE80 irq 19
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE80 ctl 0xE02 bmdma 0xEE88 irq 19
scsi0 : sata_uli
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi1 : sata_uli
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
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uncleringo
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Ok, I seem to have found a fix, albeit unintuitive. I turned on raid on the drive (i only have one drive) and now it shows up as /dev/sda.
I'm happy again, although slightly puzzled. Maybe I'll go buy another 250GB drive and have a reason to use raid. For £80 it's almost worth it... |
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