VIA SATA broken?

mindwave at cfl.rr.com mindwave at cfl.rr.com
Fri Oct 27 13:09:45 UTC 2006


I just read an article from a Knoppix author who flat out refuses to use VIA MB's.
 
Apparently, in his view, their PCI resource use isnt standardized, and could conflict with things like SATA
 
 
j


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jerry Williams <jwilliam at xmission.com> 
Date: Friday, October 27, 2006 1:44 am 
Subject: VIA SATA broken? 
To: fedora-list at redhat.com 

> I have a MSI KT6 Delta motherboard with VIA SATA. 
> 
> I can boot FC6 in rescue mode, but can't seem to find my fedora 
> install. 
> FC5 kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 works fine. 
> Can't boot kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5, sees disks, but can't 
> identify them. 
> 
> I am using dmraid. 
> 
> Also if I try to mount like /dev/sda6 if says it isn't a block device. 
> 
> I don't really need dmraid, but can't find enough information 
> about it to 
> remove it. Most of the things I have found talk about writing 
> over the 
> whole disk with dd to remove it and I really don't want to do that. 
> 
> So do I wait for the next kernel and hope it fixes my problems? 
> 
> Should I submit a bug report? Seems like I am not the only one 
> with SATA 
> issues. 
> 
> How do I learn more about dmraid? 
> 
> How do I mount a fat partition? Do I have to call it something 
> differentbecause of dmraid? It used to work in FC4, but not since 
> dmraid and FC5. 
> 
> Thanks for any help or suggestions! 
> Jerry 
> 
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