noob sata question...

[Joe Robertson]

Try using one of the scsi names (like /dev/sda)...

Thanks,
Joe Robertson


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> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Chris Tencati
> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 4:33 PM
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Subject: noob sata question...
> 
> 
> 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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