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Apreche
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 Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:26 pm Post subject: Make Serial ATA go? |
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| Hi, I've had Gentoo running for a while now. I was quite impressed with just how much hardware I was able to make work. Even the video card (GeForce FX5900) seems to work correctly. The one thing that I still have failed to activate however, is the Serial ATA. I have heard others say they got it working, but nowhere can I find out how. I have the Abit NF7-S so you know. Anything even pointing me in the right direction as to how to make Gentoo mount my Serial ATA drives would be a huge help. Thanks. |
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pross
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same motherboard and gfx card 
for the sata controller to work you need to be running a kernel version 2.4.21 or later. i prefer ac-sources myself.
in ATA/IDE section of config you need to add support for silicon image controller:-
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<*> Silicon Image chipset support
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now when you compile and reboot your new kernel any devices on the normal IDE bus' will be hdc and hdd and the sata will be hde and hdg
if like me you only have one sata HD the kernel will wait ~60 seconds at boot-time trying to find hdg...which is a pain BUT if you add something like this to grub.conf it will ignore it..
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kernel /kernel-2.4.22-ac4 root=/dev/hde3 hdg=none hdd=ide-scsi
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well hope this helps...
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Apreche
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| totally awesome. That's exactly what I needed. Only I guess my current kernel doesn't have support, as I can't find the option. This means I have to re-compile. Sorrow! It's such a pain! Oh well. |
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Apreche
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| sorrow! It didn't work. I build a new kernel from the ac-sources and I definitely added in the support for Silicon Image Chipset. There is no doubt. Yet, it still does not see my drives. I tried to mount them, and I couldn't because they were not present in /dev/. I'll fix this later, after my two cs projects are done. |
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Jerri
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Does bios detect your drive(s) on startup.. If your running on a NF7, you should see a Raid configuration utility, it will list what drives it detects. If bios can detect the cards, then perhaps you should tyr this:
If your kernel can detect your sata drive, you should see something like this:
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hde: Maxtor 91020U3, ATA DISK drive
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* Notice, hde not hda/b/c/d
And of course, the drive you have connected to the SATA connector will be listed not whats above.
If this doesn't do it, you should try posting dmesg and your kernel configuration file. |
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