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sj_digriz
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 Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:17 am Post subject: [Solved]SATA drive not being seen |
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MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum - FX-53 - WD 74 Gig SATA drive
Gentoo Universal 4.3r1
Ok, I was hoping to be WAY further than this on my first Linux go round before having to ask for help, but I guess not. I got passed the network issue for this board thanks to the posts on this forum (gogo forcedeth).
I have ONLY the SATA drive and the CD-Rom on this box. It is being seen by the BIOS during boot, but not the bootstrap even if I put -doscsi during load. (I can boot into windows off that drive, so I know the BIOS sees it.)
So, I get to the fdisk part of the install instructions and basically the util can't find a drive to partition. I tried fdisk /dev/sda ...and the others from the install guide. I also tried -l and no drive is listed.
The nVidia CK8S Serial ATA Controller is listed as loaded in the lspci list. This should be where the drive is.
Sorry, I hate being a newb. Am I totally off base as to what I should be doing?
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sj_digriz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| bah, I'm already doing idiot posts. I'm asking if there is a specific driver like the one listed on another thread .... modprobe sata_...... that would get this working on my nforce3 250 board. I don't see it in the devices dir. |
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wuzzerd
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:43 am Post subject: Re: SATA drive not being seen |
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| sj_digriz wrote: | MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum - FX-53 - WD 74 Gig SATA drive
Gentoo Universal 4.3r1
Ok, I was hoping to be WAY further than this on my first Linux go round before having to ask for help, but I guess not. I got passed the network issue for this board thanks to the posts on this forum (gogo forcedeth).
I have ONLY the SATA drive and the CD-Rom on this box. It is being seen by the BIOS during boot, but not the bootstrap even if I put -doscsi during load. (I can boot into windows off that drive, so I know the BIOS sees it.)
So, I get to the fdisk part of the install instructions and basically the util can't find a drive to partition. I tried fdisk /dev/sda ...and the others from the install guide. I also tried -l and no drive is listed.
The nVidia CK8S Serial ATA Controller is listed as loaded in the lspci list. This should be where the drive is.
Sorry, I hate being a newb. Am I totally off base as to what I should be doing? |
have you tried:
This will list the available drivers. You need to load the correct one for your controller.
then do:
| Code: | | modprobe <drivername> |
Then you should see your drive. Probably /dev/sda. You have my sympathies. I just trashed my installation by an ill advised update. Now I'm starting from scratch using everything I learned the first time. |
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sj_digriz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| thanks, I'll look again. I did it the hard way and actually went to the dir, but i didn't see anything that would be the obvious choice. But, I wasn't gonna just load forcedeth network driver either hehehe. That's not exactly a driver I would load on purpose without knowing what it was ahead of time. |
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sj_digriz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:02 am Post subject: |
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tried
That just hangs the system |
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wuzzerd
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:27 am Post subject: |
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| sj_digriz wrote: | | thanks, I'll look again. I did it the hard way and actually went to the dir, but i didn't see anything that would be the obvious choice. But, I wasn't gonna just load forcedeth network driver either hehehe. That's not exactly a driver I would load on purpose without knowing what it was ahead of time. |
What helped me was getting a picture of my motherboard. Then I knew the chipset.
I use sata_sis. |
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Kaartman
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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| sj_digriz wrote: | tried
That just hangs the system |
Thats working good here.
I got the same motherboard as you, and its working great here. I got a 200GB Maxtor on SATA. My hdd suddenly showed up as sda after the modprobe. The only difference is that I intalled it on a regular hdd and im just using the sda as hdd for my movies to be on.
btw. when it actually worked, modprobe r8169 for the realtek lan to work so you'll be connected to the internet  |
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sj_digriz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Kaartman wrote: | Thats working good here.
I got the same motherboard as you, and its working great here. I got a 200GB Maxtor on SATA. My hdd suddenly showed up as sda after the modprobe. The only difference is that I intalled it on a regular hdd and im just using the sda as hdd for my movies to be on.
btw. when it actually worked, modprobe r8169 for the realtek lan to work so you'll be connected to the internet |
Interesting. I had already got the network working with the Forcedeth driver. I'll take another stab at the sata situation today. Thanks for the info. |
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LordApophis
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| sj_digriz wrote: | tried
That just hangs the system |
Did you try to boot with kernel option 'noapic' passed? |
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sj_digriz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| The r8169 didn't work for me and the sata_nv still just hangs. The Forcedeth net drivers do get me the network going though. Not sure why its different than yours. |
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sj_digriz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| LordApophis wrote: |
Did you try to boot with kernel option 'noapic' passed? |
No, I will now though  |
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sj_digriz
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| Ok, -noapic gets the realtek netowrk adapter working instead of the nforce one, but still hangs on sata_nv. I don't need to enable the raid controller in the BIOS for this do I? I don't want it to be raid. Again, the drive works fine dual booting XP-Pro and XP-64 |
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Wolfie
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Try passing the ide=nodma, it worked for me. |
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sj_digriz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Wolfie wrote: | | Try passing the ide=nodma, it worked for me. |
sorry for noob mode. Is that passed like "modprobe sata_nv ide=nodma" or is it used at a different time during the bootstrap? |
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sj_digriz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| bleh, nm -> its an option just like noapic and doscsi. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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Did y'all try modprobe ide-disk?
That should do the trick. At least it did for me. Drives will show up as hdaX, hdbX, etc. Check for the driver module with lsmod.
Partition the drives as /dev/hdX
Build your kernel with the correct SATA driver for your mobo and use the /dev/sdaX drive identification in your fstab.
When you reboot, drives will be recognized as /dev/sdXX  |
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sj_digriz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| overkll wrote: | Did y'all try modprobe ide-disk?
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I don't even see this as a driver on this build. Under IDE there is only ide-floppy and ide-tape. In legacy there is ide-cs. I did a global search through /kernel/drivers and it's not on this CD. |
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sj_digriz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, solved this hurdle WEEEEEE. Thanks for the help. DETAILS:
Had to disable IDE DMA in the BIOS. Had to turn on RAID, then back off again in the BIOS. I never assigned it to a drive, but now I get "Scanning RAID...." message during boot even though RAID is now disabled. By getting that far I can now use
Again, thanks for the help. I'm sure I'll be back with a new thread in about 4 minutes 
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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At last I found ide-disk! On a 2004.2 gen disk... So finally I've got my SATA disk going!
A shame this module is removed from 2004.3... |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Where did ide-disk go? It isn't in the livecd anymore:(
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