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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:55:16
Message-Id: 200704301046.14018.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop by Graham Murray
1 Am Montag, 30. April 2007 schrieb ext Graham Murray:
2 > Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com> writes:
3 > > Sata support may not be enough. Since all the SATA stuff has been put
4 > > into the SCSI subsystem, you would need support for SCSI disks (and
5 > > maybe CDRoms as well):
6 >
7 > In the latest kernels, SATA is no longer in the SCSI subsystem but has
8 > been 'split' into its own libata subsystem.
9
10 I just booted 2.6.21.1 (the latest AFAIK) from my /dev/sda, which is a SATA
11 drive. If it is sda*, it is the SCSI subsystem, otherwise it would be hda*.
12
13 % dmesg|grep sda
14 SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
15 sda: Write Protect is off
16 sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
17 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
18 DPO or FUA
19 SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
20 sda: Write Protect is off
21 sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
22 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
23 DPO or FUA
24 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
25 sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
26
27 So once again: if it is SATA, you need (in addition to the driver for your
28 SATA chip):
29
30 CONFIG_SCSI=y
31 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
32
33 and, eventually
34
35 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
36
37 And btw, even PATA is in the SCSI subsystem nowadays (my system has SATA hd,
38 but PATA cdrom, attached to an Intel ICH6 chipset):
39
40 % dmesg|grep -i scsi
41 SCSI subsystem initialized
42 scsi0 : ata_piix
43 scsi1 : ata_piix
44 scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B E106 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
45 scsi2 : ata_piix
46 scsi3 : ata_piix
47 scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD800JD-75JN 06.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
48 SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
49 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
50 DPO or FUA
51 SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
52 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
53 DPO or FUA
54 sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
55
56 Bye...
57
58 Dirk
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