On Sun, December 23, 2007 1:18 pm, David Brown wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:48:06PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > >>I have a WD-1600 jumpered and cabled as /dev/hdb, except now (and I do >> NOT >>get this) everything in F8 configures as /dev/sd[a-d]. I just HATE it >> when >>they change shit and leave me wondering why. > > Your old kernel did not have a SATA driver for your motherboard, so was > using the controller in IDE emulation mode. Now you have a kernel that > has SATA drivers, the device appears as SCSI device. > >>So the box BIOS finds this drive as Auto and fills in its size, but >>doesn't offer it to me as a resource during the install. > > So, you're saying that the F8 installer doesn't identify the drive and > offer it as a resource? Is it not available as one of the /dev/sd? > devices?
That is correct. The BIOS under Auto says that master 2 is 160G. That's the last I see of it. > >>Tell me what I need to tell you to get this moving. > > Can you get to a shell prompt and do a dmesg? It should identify the > drives and what got assigned to what. > dmesg|grep sd[a-d] # only finds 80G sda. > Or, am I misunderstanding what isn't working? > > Dave > No more or less than I am. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
