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Brent Busby wrote: |
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> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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>> Ugh!! This sounds like the roadblock I ran into! The problem |
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>> drive, /dev/hda, holds the root filesystem and several others, and |
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>> didn't show up at all in /dev. Since the system also has several SATA |
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>> drives, I'm using the sata_promise kernel module for these, but the SATA |
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>> system on the MB is managed by a Promise chipset, which supposedly |
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>> implements hardware RAID but it's proprietary so I'm just using plain |
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>> old discrete non-RAID mode. |
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>> I have rather a conflict here, since I already have a /dev/sda. |
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>> Is there a HOWTO for using libata-supported kernel components, and |
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>> configuring them in the kernel? The MB has an ICH5 controller hub, |
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>> which I assume handles the PATA IF. lspci shows: |
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>> IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE |
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>> Controller (rev 02) |
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>> The linux kernel here already has CONFIG_ATA_PIIX, which supposedly |
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>> talks the lingo of the ICH series I/O controller hub. What else do I |
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>> need here, or where can I go to learn more? |
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> If you go through the list of drivers in the Sata section, toward the |
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> second half of the list, there are Pata drivers. They used to be |
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> deprecated, but now they're the only ones that are supported. You |
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> just need to find the Pata drivers (in the Sata section) that |
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> correspond to what you've got (you'll probably have to look around a |
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> bit), and then turn off the entire old Pata section. There should |
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> probably be a Pata driver in the new Sata section though that handles |
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> Intel PIIX chipset; it's pretty common. |
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> The danger that will make you want to keep a rescue CD handy is that |
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> it's hard to predict how your devices are going to get enumerated at |
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> bootup under these new semantics, or to know whether it will match |
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> what you've got in your fstab. If you need a good rescue CD though, |
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> I'd recommend System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/), which is |
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> based on Gentoo and handles about anything. |
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Noticed something in another reply that I thought I would mention right |
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quick. My mobo has on board IDE controller. I also have a SATA PCI |
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card with a drive connected to it as well. This may help you to know. |
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When I recently converted mine over to PATA/SATA, it sees the drive on |
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the SATA controller first then the drives connected to the mobo. So, |
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you may want to anticipate that the SATA drives will be sda, sdb and so |
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on, then any drives connected to your mobo afterwards. This was |
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somewhat of a surprise when I did this. Thank goodness grub is pretty |
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forgiving and helps the idiot in the chair. lol I wasn't sure where |
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my root partition was anymore. |
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Hope that helps just in case you have something similar. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |