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From: fedora-test-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of
Chris Tencati
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 4:33 PM
To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: noob sata question...
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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