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From: Nick Van Vlaenderen <nick.vanvlaenderen@×××××××.be>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SATA again...
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:18:51
Message-Id: 003401c4180d$62516740$0c00a8c0@NOTEBOOK
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] SATA again... by lema
1 Hi Lima
2
3 Thanks for the info! I boot from the SMP kernel, 'cause I need it for my CPU
4 (it has Hyper-Threading...). But, you said the 2.6 series can't find any
5 SATA disks? Probably, that's the reason, since the SMP kernel is a 2.6.1
6 kernel...
7
8 Anyway, I am going to try the standard 2.4 Gentoo kernel.
9
10 Nick
11 ----- Original Message -----
12 From: "lema" <lema@×××××××××××.ar>
13 To: <gentoo-server@l.g.o>
14 Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 6:51 PM
15 Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SATA again...
16
17
18 I have several servers with a Intel 875PBZ motherboard, one SATA disk of
19 160GB, and a CD-ROM. In the bios there is a 'Drive Configuration'
20 section where you can choose your 'ATA/IDE Configuration' as 'Enhanced'
21 or 'Legacy'. The first one gives you the 2 PATA channels plus the 2 SATA
22 channel for a total of 6 devices (2 SATA and 4 PATA). Booting from
23 Gentoo-2004.0-universal CD with this configuration + RAID disabled, the
24 SATA disk is shown as /dev/hde (or /dev/hdf). If you want (for any
25 reason) to have your SATA disk as /dev/hda you should change to the
26 Legacy option selecting the configuration whith the 2 SATA channels +
27 the secondary PATA (where you put your CD). Booting in this
28 configuration (RAID disabled) shows the SATA disk as /dev/hda and the CD
29 Rom as /dev/hdc.
30 This is a copy&paste of the section in dmesg where the IDE drives are
31 detected whith a 2.4.24 kernel:
32
33 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
34 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
35 with idebus=xx
36 ICH5-SATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.2
37 ICH5-SATA: chipset revision 2
38 ICH5-SATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
39 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA,
40 hdb:pio
41 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA,
42 hdd:pio
43 hda: ST3160023AS, ATA DISK drive
44 blk: queue c0415640, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
45 hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
46 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
47 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
48 hda: attached ide-disk driver.
49 hda: host protected area => 1
50 hda: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache,
51 CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33)
52 hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
53 hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
54 Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
55 Partition check:
56 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
57 ide: late registration of driver.
58
59 When I tried to boot from a 2.6 kernel, the SATA disk is not detected at
60 all in any BIOS configuration.
61
62 Hope this can help and not confuse...
63
64 On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:46, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote:
65 > Andy,
66 >
67 > I turned off the SATA Raid in the BIOS, since I don't really need raid. I
68 > just set SATA mode to IDE... The manual tells me they will appear
69 individual
70 > when I turn raid off, since it is software raid...
71 >
72 > Nick
73 > ----- Original Message -----
74 > From: "Andy Dustman" <adustman@×××××××××.edu>
75 > To: <gentoo-server@l.g.o>
76 > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:37 PM
77 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SATA again...
78 >
79 >
80 > > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 10:17, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote:
81 > > >
82 > > > In my server, there's an Intel hance Rapid SATA controller. When I
83 > > > boot from the livecd, /dev/hda is the cd-romdrive, but that's the only
84 > > > hdx device I can find (/dev/hdb, /dev/hdc etc don't exist). I heard
85 > > > that SATA disks can be called /dev/sdx, but they don't exist either...
86 > > >
87 > > > Does anyone know why I can't find them, or... are the drivers for the
88 > > > Intel hance Rapid SATA controller already in the kernel? Or do I have
89 > > > to load a module..?
90 > >
91 > > You almost certainly have to load a module before the RAID array will
92 > > show up. Note that you will *not* see the individual drives.
93 > > --
94 > > Andy Dustman <adustman@×××××××××.edu>
95 > > Office of Information Technology, Terry College of Business, UGA
96 > >
97 > >
98 > >
99 > >
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