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Phancy Physicist
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 Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: A8V Deluxe and Promise SATA [SOLVED] |
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I had an info loss scare so I bought another SATA drive for my A8V deluxe and plugged it in to the Promise part of the board. However I can't find where they are listed in /dev so I was wondering if anyone knew what it might be.
Thanks
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Phancy Physicist
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| Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I forgot to mention that the motherboard sees it. I just don't know what /dev the promise part of the board uses or how to find out. |
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trashman
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| Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| So is this the first time you've used the Promise controller? You probably need to activate the driver in your kernel. If that's not the problem try looking at the output of `fdisk -l`. |
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Phancy Physicist
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:07 am Post subject: |
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I checked my kernel (2.6.15-r7) options and the "promise sata sx8 support" and the two Promise supports are enabled.
when i run i get:
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Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 765 6144831 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 766 9731 72019395 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 766 3570 22531131 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb6 3571 6120 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb7 6121 9731 29005326 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sda: 74.3 GB, 74355769344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2 6 130 1004062+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 131 9039 71561542+ fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/sdb: 74.3 GB, 74355769344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 5 40131 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2 6 130 1004062+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 131 9039 71561542+ fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/md0: 41 MB, 41025536 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 10016 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md2: 146.5 GB, 146557894656 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 35780736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table
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/dev/hdb is my windows drive
/dev/sda and /dev/sdb is my linux raid
The drive i am trying to add is a 320Gb SATA for back up
Yes this is the first time i have used the onboard promise raid controler |
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Phancy Physicist
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:21 am Post subject: |
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I run
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00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
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so the controller is showing up |
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trashman
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Phancy Physicist
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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I was thinking about what trashman posted and did a search for PDC20378 and got this link
http://www.de.gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_SATA
And I rechecked my kernel options. It turns out I didn't enable the SCSI low level drivers. 
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