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William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have |
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> something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx. |
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> Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes |
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> in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match. |
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> I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take |
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> precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at |
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> least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata |
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> stuff deselected. |
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> BillK |
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Cheers, |
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This is why it's doing my head in. I have a desktop with both sata pata |
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drives in with a very similar kernel config and it work as expected :-/ |
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I will try removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff tonight, and report |
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back later. |
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Thanks again for the help |
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> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:47 +0200, Wayn0 wrote: |
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>> Renat Golubchyk wrote: |
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>>> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 "Mark Shields" <laebshade@×××××.com> |
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>>> wrote: |
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>>>> I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what |
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>>>> level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma |
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>>>> Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4. |
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>>> Why not udma5 ? All my PATA drives (desktop and notebook) run at udma5 |
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>>> for some years now without any problems. |
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>> Thanks to everybody that's replied so far. |
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>> I may have missed something kernel wise but my sata drives are |
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>> registering as hd* and it refuses to switch on dma. |
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>> I have no doubt this is a kernel config, just not sure where to look. |
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>> I don't have the laptop with me at the moment so I will post the kernel |
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>> config this evening. |
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>> or perhaps somebody knows right off the bat what the problem is and what |
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>> I need to enable and disable. |
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>> I am using the latest gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r8 if memory serves. |
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>> Thanks again |
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>> Wayn0 |
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