The Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro motherboard has four points you can plug a SATA drive cable. They are SATA0_SB and SATA1_SB, both controlled by the onboard nVIDIA nForce3 250 chipset. I tried one of these and had no luck with 2.6 kernel, sarge i386 or sid-amd64, detecting my Seagate ST380013AS SATA drive. Then there are SATA0_SII and SATA1_SII, both controlled by the built-in Silicon Image Sil3512 chipset. I swapped the cable into SATA0_SII socket and rebooted. Straight away the drive was detected: scsi3 : sata_sil Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 3.18 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 156299375 512-byte hdwr sectors (80025 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
I am able to mount the drive. > > Have you tried "modprobe sata_sil" in console 2 when you're notified > > the no hard disk found ? > > Thanks Christian. Sata_sil module was loading, as was sata_nv, I also saw something to do with nv_sata in dmesg.. > One more thing. There is no need to reinstall your system again (apart > from testing if it works). You can go into single user mode and copy > (tar | tar or rsync or whatever you prefer) the old system to the new > disk, change the bootloader config and mkinitrd config, run mkinitrd > and (for lilo) reinstall the bootloader by chrooting to the new disk. Thanks Goswin. Does 'single user mode' mean become root? I will have to look for a tutorial coz I am almost out of my depth here. First up I will copy the boot disk (2GB ATA) to the new SATA disk. I am using GRUB. Thanks again, Norv
