On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 21:25, Jeff Shultz wrote:
> I wish I remembered how I managed to install 9.2RC1 to my 80gb Seagate
> SATA drive - because on the install now it appears that it isn't going
> to work. It fails when it comes to re-formatting or partitioning the
> drive. On the first stage install, it mentions that that hard drive is
> "losing the interrupt" frequently as it works it's way through.
> It's set up in BASE mode as opposed to RAID mode. It's an SI chip, a
> 3112 I think. It is possible that it was originally in RAID mode
> (although not actually in an array) when I set it up the first time.
> I'll go back and set it up that way again if the current install fails,
> as I expect it to.
>
> This is frustrating - and something important that needs to be fixed,
> what with SATA supposedly the future of user level hard drives.
>
RC2 installed fine on my 120 gig Seagate SATA drive, on an Silicon Image
SATA controller, that is on my asus nforce2 mb
from lspcidrake:
Silicon Image|Sil3112A Serial ATA [STORAGE_RAID]
hdparm -i /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Model=ST3120026AS, FwRev=3.05, SerialNo=3JT0JJKQ
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=234441648
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2:
* signifies the current active mode
