Serial ATA drives, how to fdisk?

[Pete St. Onge]

Look at the contents of dmesg to find your SATA disks. These are usually
presented as 'SCSI' disks ...

backup:~# dmesg

[some info clipped]

scsi0 : sata_promise
scsi1 : sata_promise
  Vendor: ATA       Model: Maxtor 6Y200M0    Rev: YAR5
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
  Vendor: ATA       Model: Maxtor 7Y250M0    Rev: YAR5
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05

Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 398297088 512-byte hdwr sectors (203928 MB)
 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
SCSI device sdb: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1

Hope this helps,

Pete


On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:16:12AM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
> When I need to install an operating system, I've been running fdisk via 
> Oralux But I booted the newest machine here at UW-Math and there was no 
> /dev/hda. They tell me it has serial ATA. How do I get to that device to 
> fdisk it? 

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Pete St. Onge
pete at seul.org