Serial ATA drives, how to fdisk?

[John G. Heim]

So the drives appear as sda1, sd2, ... on your system? Do you know if 
Oralux supports scsi drives? Else, how do you do an fdisk? Do you boot some 
other tool?

Maybe knoppix supports serial ATA and I can do a serial console?


At 10:20 AM 4/25/2005, you wrote:
>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 at seul.org
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