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120420 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am Freitag, 20. April 2012, 05:25:58 schrieb Philip Webb: |
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>> My motherboard went on the blink earlier this week. |
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>> I've now successfully installed a new one, |
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>> but now can't get the kernel to find the SATA hard disk ("803 etc"). |
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>> The problem seems to be that the kernel has AHCI enabled, |
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>> which was necessary for the old mobo, |
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>> but the new one's BIOS doesn't have an option to select AHCI. |
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> did you just look at the wrong place, |
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> because AHCI is a must-have, not a maybe or could be there. |
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> If your mobo has vista/win7 certification, it does support AHCI. |
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> Or is so horribly broken you should RMA ASAP. |
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It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX & the manual says : |
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"This motherboard supports Windows Vista/XP/7 OS". |
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The previous mobo (Asus P5K-VM) has a menu |
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Main -> IDE Configuration -> Configure SATA as [IDE] |
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with an option 'AHCI', which was enabled & the kernel booted properly; |
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its manual says "If you want to use the SATA drives as parallel ATA |
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physical storage, keep the default setting [IDE]", |
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but that caused the same problem that the kernel couldn't find the drive; |
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when I configured it as [AHCI], everything worked (since 2007). |
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The new manual has a menu |
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Main -> Storage Configuration -> ATA/IDE configuration [Enhanced] |
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which corresponds to a menu 'SATA configuration' in the old manual |
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& [Enhanced] opens another item 'Enhanced mode support on S-ATA', |
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which allows you to set Serial/Parallel/Both for ATA. |
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Since Ubuntu, Mandriva & System Rescue boot without any problem |
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& SR does find my LVM partitions & can mount them properly, |
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there must be settings which allow the kernel to find the HD with this mobo. |
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I will look them up & compare them all later today, |
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but any further advice is very welcome. Thanks so far. |
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SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb |
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