Problems with kernel

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Fri, November 4, 2005 2:30 am, Michael Velez said:
>
> Subject: RE: Problems with kernel
>
> Does anyone know how to get Debian to see my SATA drive.
> It will not even see a external 40GB drive. I have a Dell Dimension 8400,
> 2Gb Ram, Two IDE CD ROMs which use plus the primary 160Gb Sata drive and
> another 40Gb Sata. It just will not see them. This has happened with RH9,
> as
> well as SuSe Linux. I had read in a news group post that Debian 3.1r0a
> does
> but that is the version I am using. I can run all as virtual machine
> within
> Windows but you lose much! Please help if you can, I also want to use my
> tv
> tuner card within Linux. Plus the burner and CD player.

If the BIOS sees the drive, the OS will. If you don't see it with df, then
you have to verify that /dev/sd[a..z]1 is there. SATA drives are shown as
SCSI disks and the default is to assign them as /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1, etc.

I use SATA at home and work, mirrored, and whenever there's a problem,
it's been in the BIOS.

HTH

Karl

>
> Anthony Emmite
> ajemmite at houston.rr.com
> (713)991-1592
>  -----------------------------------------
>
> I had the same problem at install of my Dell 370.
>
> My problem was that the RAID functionality was enabled in the BIOS.  Once
> I
> changed it so that the SATA controller acted only as a SATA controller and
> not a RAID controller, it worked.
>
> Michael
>
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