The conclusion to this question, I believe...
I've edited a bit so the history reads sequentially, for my archives ;-)
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 22:00:43 +0100 "Carlos Martín" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On 02/03/06, Andrei Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:27:24 +0100
> "Carlos Martín" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 02/03/06, Brandon Peirce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > ... I would appreciate any tips on how to access a SATA disk.
Specifically:
> > >
> > > a) What type of device this shows up as: IDE, SCSI, USB, ???
> > > b) Which kernel drivers are needed?
> > > c) Under which device nodes do they show up,
> > > e.g. /dev/sdx, /dev/hdx, /dev/???,...
> > I'm running my system on SATA right now. It's not on LFS, but it
> > should work the same.
> >
> > SATA goes through SCSI at the moment, so it will be /dev/sd* and IIRC
> > they behave just like SCSI disks.
> >
> > GRUB didn't want to find my disk saying it didn't have a BIOS
> > enumeration, but I havent tried all that much.
> >
> > In the SCSI menu you need to activate SATA support and then the driver
> > for your controller.
> > --
> > Carlos Martín Nieto http://www.cmartin.tk
> I have a SATA drive and use it with several Linux systems including LFS
6.0.
> All of them recognize the drive as IDE. However, even if there is only
one drive,
> they see it as /dev/hdc. This causes problems with some live Linux CDs
which
> do not boot but others see it fine.
> Andrei
You are probably using the old (now deprecated) way. I'm using the newer
one.
OK, now I've compiled a 2.6 kernel and got this working and it's still
reasonably
fresh in my memory... I admit that I was sceptical at first after the SATA
disk showed
up in my BIOS as Master device on IDE ch2 (primary=ch0). However it does
depend on the kernel.
In the kernel config there is an option, indeed marked as deprecated, for
SATA
support under the IDE section. There is also a separate sub-section for SATA
support
and -drivers under the SCSI low-level drivers section.
Thanks for the tips.
- Brandon.
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