If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx.
Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match. I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata stuff deselected. BillK On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:47 +0200, Wayn0 wrote: > Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 "Mark Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what > >> level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma > >> > >> Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4. > > > > Why not udma5 ? All my PATA drives (desktop and notebook) run at udma5 > > for some years now without any problems. > > Thanks to everybody that's replied so far. > > I may have missed something kernel wise but my sata drives are > registering as hd* and it refuses to switch on dma. > > I have no doubt this is a kernel config, just not sure where to look. > I don't have the laptop with me at the moment so I will post the kernel > config this evening. > > or perhaps somebody knows right off the bat what the problem is and what > I need to enable and disable. > > I am using the latest gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r8 if memory serves. > > > Thanks again > > Wayn0 > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
