noob sata question...
Chris Tencati
turtle83011 at hotmail.com
Sat Oct 2 23:33:18 UTC 2004
Back when I had FC2 with the 2.4.x kernel, obviously there was no sata
support built-in, but I'm using a promise controller and they make their
drivers available for download/build, so everything worked fine. Now I'm
using an up to date (as of yesterday) version of FC2T2, and that's causing
some problems for me. SATA support is now built-in to the kernel, which is
great, but I can't figure out how to actually access the disk...with the old
driver I think it got reported as a scsi drive (which I swear is wrong) that
was then faked as a normal ide drive, and I could mount it normally as
/dev/hdc. Now though I don't have any scsi drives listed, udev made my
cdrom into /dev/hdc (which is lame, it's not an hd!) and there are no
addition hd* devices and nothing in general that looks correct. md0 is also
unmountable. The sata_promise module/driver and others are loaded, and the
system does recognize that there is a sata drive connected - KDE's hardware
browser lists it under RAID devices (it's not hardware raid though if that's
important), but I can't figure out any way to access it. I tried playing
with MAKEDEV but since I don't really know what to try with it, that didn't
help at all. /etc/fstab and /proc/partitions don't list anything except my
'normal' drives...
>From looking at all the stuff online about sata and linux and the new 2.6
kernels, it seems I'm missing something painfully obvious, but I really
can't think of what else to try. Promise doesn't have binaries or source
for independent modules that support the 2.6 kernels (which makes sense
since it's now included in the kernel itself), so I can't just do what I did
before either. So any idea what stupid thing I'm overlooking, so that I can
actually use this other drive?
FC2T2
kernel 2.6.8-1.541 (stock FC build)
Promise SATA 150 TX2plus controller
some Maxtor SATA drive
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