--- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:01:09PM -0800, maxim > wexler wrote > > Hello everybody, > > > > As a followup to my "ghosting" post, the SATA > drive is > > now in place. BIOS detects it as third master. A > boot > > CD finds it and assigns /dev/sda to it. > > > > But gentoo can't find it. > > I had a similar problem when I got my current > machine last summer. > here's how to solve it... > > 1) boot from the Gentoo CD > > 2) execute "lsmod". This lists all the modules > that the kernel has > loaded. One of them is running the drive. If you > get desparate, build > each module into your kernel, one at a time, until > you find what works. > > 3) execute "lspci -v". The listing *FOR THE > DRIVE* (as well as the > controller) may show what module it wants. Compile > that into the > kernel. That's what I thought. lspci reveals a Sil3114 SATA controller and, in fact, the Sil3114 chip is right there on the motherboard prominently displayed. But choosing the Sil option in the SCSI device page has no effect. It wasn't until I compiled in the nVidia option that the HD was finally detected. > > -- > Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux > /sbin/init is Job #1 > My musings on technology and security at > http://tech_sec.blog.ca > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com -- [email protected] mailing list
