Serial ATA drives, how to fdisk?

[Pete St. Onge]

Correct - The drives do appear as /dev/sdaX etc on this system. I don't
know about Oralinux (I pretty much only use Debian), but if this is a
typical install kernel, you should have support for SCSI included and it
Should Just Work. In any case, dump the output from dmesg into a file
(dmesg > my_machine_info) and look through it with your favourite pager
or editor.

You should be able to use fdisk or cfdisk as usual, just specify the
drive and partition with care: 'fdisk /dev/sda'

Hope this helps,

Pete

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:34:29AM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
> 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 St. Onge
pete at seul.org