On 9/28/05, Fabian Braennstroem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just installed a new kernel with udev and the new sata
> module libsata. Booting was no problem, but mounting the new
> sata drive make some trouble. I thought it would work with
>  mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> but it doesn't!?
> The relevant kernel messages look like:
>
>    1928 Sep 27 22:13:05 node1 kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEFE0 ctl 
> 0xEFAE bmdma 0xEF60 irq 16
>    1929 Sep 27 22:13:05 node1 kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEFA0 ctl 
> 0xEFAA bmdma 0xEF68 irq 16
>    1930 Sep 27 22:13:05 node1 kernel: ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 
> 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:20ff
>    1931 Sep 27 22:13:05 node1 kernel: ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA7, 390721968 
> sectors: lba48
>    1932 Sep 27 22:13:05 node1 kernel: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
>    1933 Sep 27 22:13:05 node1 kernel: scsi0 : ata_piix
>    1934 Sep 27 22:13:05 node1 kernel: ata2: SATA port has no device.
>    1935 Sep 27 22:13:05 node1 kernel: scsi1 : ata_piix
>    1936 Sep 27 22:13:05 node1 kernel:   Vendor: ATA       Model: SAMSUNG 
> SP2004C   Rev: VM10
>    1937 Sep 27 22:13:05 node1 kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                 
>      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
>
> Do you have any idea?
>
> Greetings!
> Fabian
>

New hard drives tend to come unformatted. you will need to make
partitions on it with a tool like cfdisk or fdisk, and the make the
filesystems with the appropriate tools, mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.vfat.

James

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