Strange SATA problem

[simon_src]

Hi all,

I've put Gentoo x86 on my Toshiba Satellite Pro A10 laptop, and am connecting two SATA drives to it using a PCMCIA to SATA adapter (the adapter has two SATA ports and uses the sata_uli module), one of the drives is a normal SATA drive, and the other drive which I'm having the problem with is an IDE drive which uses a SATA to IDE adapter, which should by all rights be transparent to the OS anyway.

The ide drive is not detected by my Gentoo installation at all, or the Gentoo live install CD, when booting or re-inserting the PCMCIA card shows only one drive detected, and it is always the same (normal SATA) drive that is detected, no matter which of the two ports the drive is plugged into, and fdisk -l also detects only one drive;

My first thought was hardware failure - however the gParted live CD, Knoppix live CD and the Windows Server 2003 installation which I am dual booting with (installed on the laptop's internal drive with Gentoo) all detect the drive flawlessly, and so I thought it might be a configuration problem on my part, however the Gentoo Live CD also fails to detect the drive so I'm leaning towards it being a problem with Gentoo; However, I had had this setup working in the past, it only seems to have stopped working after I had changed the drives around (and after this everything other than Gentoo still seems to detect it).

Anybody else have any ideas? As this has me completely stumped!

Thanks for reading, and further thanks if you manage to help me!

[Suicidal]

Been awhile since I used knoppix; see if they have a config on the knoppix CD in /proc/config.gz and compare it with your current kernel config.

[simon_src]

I seem to have fixed the problem now thanks; for some reason the sata_uli module wasn't detecting the drive because it was detected after the module was probed, adding modprobe -r sata_uli; modprobe sata_uli; in a startup script called after the PCMCIA service has run seems to make it work!

Thanks for your advice anyway though!