Hi, Thanks, but I speak about a BIOS configuration.
In general, there are 2 ways to configure a SATA interface : one is 'compatibility', and then the SATA drive is seen like a standard IDE one. But in my BIOS, I have only Ultra and Raid. So I wonder if this possibility exists on my board, or not. Best regards, Amel >-- Message original-- >Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:38:41 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: SATA problem on Tiger K8W (S2875ANRF) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) > > >On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:30:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I bought one Tiger K8W board. All seems to be OK, Knoppix and Ubuntu works >> fine, but I have a problem : >> >> I can't do that my SATA disk is 'seen' like a IDE one, how it's possible >> with some boards. >> >> Can someone please say me if it is possible and how to do it, or comfirme >> that is impossible? > >Current 2.6 kernels access SATA drives as scsi since that is what they >are more similar to. The old ide style drivers for SATA didn't work so >well and are no longer maintained as far as I know. > >scsi access is the fugure way for SATA, so get used to it. > >2.6.8 used on many of Debian's installer discs unfortunately fails to >find many SATA controllers that 2.6.10 finds just fine. Not sure what >the current recomendation is for getting around that problem. Check the >list archives for more info on this. > >Len Sorensen sunrise ADSL: Gratuit et plus s�r que jamais! http://www.sunrise.ch/fr/home/proint/proint_ads-2.htm
