I've got a ABIT KV7 mobo (KT600 chipset) with a VIA VT8237 SATA controller and Maxtor SATA drive so can test a libata patched kernel.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lspci RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3149 (rev 80) [EMAIL PROTECTED] lspci -n 00:0f.0 Class 0104: 1106:3149 (rev 80)
I was going to attempt patching myself, but I have limited dabbling with the kernel. I can try... or a more experienced person can do the spec file and I'll test.
I have a machine in which I am installing cooker with a VIA8237. Obviously the installer does not recognize the hard drives at the time of installation. Once installed and loading sata_via in the modules.conf the hard drives are detected and seem to operate well independently.
Ah, yes, doing a "modprobe sata_via" makes the drive work. So I guess the kernel doesn't need patching, but maybe updating (the last libata patch was 17th Oct). I don't know if this is reliable or not... I'll find out over time :-)
I had problems with diskdrake formatting the drive. I used it to create a single 76Gb partition on /dev/sda and format it as the default ext3. "df -h" gave a partition size of around 380 *Mb*. Running "mke2fs -j" from the console did not change anything. I then ran "fdisk /dev/sda" and just listed the partition table and wrote it to disk after changing nothing. Running "mke2fs -j" again correctly created a 76Gb ext3 filesystem.
All of this is with 9.2 (not cooker), but they are near-identical at the moment. I can retest with Cooker / give accurate information if required. I'll try reproducing it tonight and file a bug report if it happens again.
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Mark Scott
