noob sata question...

[Chris Tencati]

Back when I had FC2 with the 2.4.x kernel, obviously there was no sata 
support built-in, but I'm using a promise controller and they make their 
drivers available for download/build, so everything worked fine.  Now I'm 
using an up to date (as of yesterday) version of FC2T2, and that's causing 
some problems for me.  SATA support is now built-in to the kernel, which is 
great, but I can't figure out how to actually access the disk...with the old 
driver I think it got reported as a scsi drive (which I swear is wrong) that 
was then faked as a normal ide drive, and I could mount it normally as 
/dev/hdc.  Now though I don't have any scsi drives listed, udev made my 
cdrom into /dev/hdc (which is lame, it's not an hd!) and there are no 
addition hd* devices and nothing in general that looks correct.  md0 is also 
unmountable.  The sata_promise module/driver and others are loaded, and the 
system does recognize that there is a sata drive connected - KDE's hardware 
browser lists it under RAID devices (it's not hardware raid though if that's 
important), but I can't figure out any way to access it.  I tried playing 
with MAKEDEV but since I don't really know what to try with it, that didn't 
help at all.  /etc/fstab and /proc/partitions don't list anything except my 
'normal' drives...

>From looking at all the stuff online about sata and linux and the new 2.6 
kernels, it seems I'm missing something painfully obvious, but I really 
can't think of what else to try.  Promise doesn't have binaries or source 
for independent modules that support the 2.6 kernels (which makes sense 
since it's now included in the kernel itself), so I can't just do what I did 
before either.  So any idea what stupid thing I'm overlooking, so that I can 
actually use this other drive?

FC2T2
kernel 2.6.8-1.541 (stock FC build)
Promise SATA 150 TX2plus controller
some Maxtor SATA drive

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