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Nick, |
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You should be able to use SATA perfectly well, I am with a 2.6.4 kernel and |
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I've gotta say it ROCKS! Which SATA Chipset is it? If it’s the Silicon Image |
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like my Shuttle here then you need to allow experimental drivers for doing |
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the build. But so far its sweet! Wouldn't give it up! |
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Davin |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Nick Van Vlaenderen [mailto:nick.vanvlaenderen@×××××××.be] |
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Sent: 01 April 2004 18:19 |
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To: gentoo-server@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SATA again... |
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Hi Lima |
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Thanks for the info! I boot from the SMP kernel, 'cause I need it for my CPU |
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(it has Hyper-Threading...). But, you said the 2.6 series can't find any |
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SATA disks? Probably, that's the reason, since the SMP kernel is a 2.6.1 |
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kernel... |
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Anyway, I am going to try the standard 2.4 Gentoo kernel. |
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Nick |
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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "lema" <lema@×××××××××××.ar> |
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To: <gentoo-server@l.g.o> |
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Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 6:51 PM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SATA again... |
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I have several servers with a Intel 875PBZ motherboard, one SATA disk of |
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160GB, and a CD-ROM. In the bios there is a 'Drive Configuration' |
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section where you can choose your 'ATA/IDE Configuration' as 'Enhanced' |
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or 'Legacy'. The first one gives you the 2 PATA channels plus the 2 SATA |
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channel for a total of 6 devices (2 SATA and 4 PATA). Booting from |
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Gentoo-2004.0-universal CD with this configuration + RAID disabled, the |
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SATA disk is shown as /dev/hde (or /dev/hdf). If you want (for any |
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reason) to have your SATA disk as /dev/hda you should change to the |
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Legacy option selecting the configuration whith the 2 SATA channels + |
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the secondary PATA (where you put your CD). Booting in this |
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configuration (RAID disabled) shows the SATA disk as /dev/hda and the CD |
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Rom as /dev/hdc. |
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This is a copy&paste of the section in dmesg where the IDE drives are |
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detected whith a 2.4.24 kernel: |
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Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 |
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ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override |
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with idebus=xx |
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ICH5-SATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.2 |
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ICH5-SATA: chipset revision 2 |
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ICH5-SATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later |
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ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, |
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hdb:pio |
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ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, |
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hdd:pio |
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hda: ST3160023AS, ATA DISK drive |
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blk: queue c0415640, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) |
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hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive |
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ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 |
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ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 |
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hda: attached ide-disk driver. |
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hda: host protected area => 1 |
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hda: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, |
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CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33) |
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hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. |
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hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache |
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Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 |
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Partition check: |
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/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 |
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ide: late registration of driver. |
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When I tried to boot from a 2.6 kernel, the SATA disk is not detected at |
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all in any BIOS configuration. |
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Hope this can help and not confuse... |
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On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:46, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: |
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> Andy, |
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> I turned off the SATA Raid in the BIOS, since I don't really need raid. I |
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> just set SATA mode to IDE... The manual tells me they will appear |
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individual |
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> when I turn raid off, since it is software raid... |
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> Nick |
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> ----- Original Message ----- |
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> From: "Andy Dustman" <adustman@×××××××××.edu> |
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> To: <gentoo-server@l.g.o> |
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:37 PM |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SATA again... |
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> |
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> > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 10:17, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > In my server, there's an Intel hance Rapid SATA controller. When I |
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> > > boot from the livecd, /dev/hda is the cd-romdrive, but that's the only |
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> > > hdx device I can find (/dev/hdb, /dev/hdc etc don't exist). I heard |
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> > > that SATA disks can be called /dev/sdx, but they don't exist either... |
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> > > |
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> > > Does anyone know why I can't find them, or... are the drivers for the |
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> > > Intel hance Rapid SATA controller already in the kernel? Or do I have |
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> > > to load a module..? |
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> > |
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> > You almost certainly have to load a module before the RAID array will |
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> > show up. Note that you will *not* see the individual drives. |
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> > -- |
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> > Andy Dustman <adustman@×××××××××.edu> |
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> > Office of Information Technology, Terry College of Business, UGA |
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> > |
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> > |
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-- |
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Dr. Fabián M. Lema Instituto Balseiro - CNEA - UNCuyo |
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lema@×××××××××××.ar Av. Bustillo 9500 |
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ICQ#=50934995 S. C. de Bariloche |
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Tel: ++54 2944 445174 8400 Rio Negro |
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