Isn't PIIX the Intel driver ? I understand you need the driver appropriate to your board / controller. In my case it's CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y ... or have I not understood something here ? In fact, I believe my first compile included all the drivers, still no dice. thanks Rod
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 11:27 -0500, O Plameras wrote: > Rod Butcher wrote: > > >The new driver-thingie is libata. But I never got it working, even > >though it claimed to load Ok. I had to use the old driver to use Sata. > >Ran out of time and interest to pursue it further. > >cheers > > > > The 'libata' driver requires 'ata_piix' in kernel-2.6.9. > Alone by itself, 'libata' is insufficient to make /dev/sda work. > > So, to get your SATA hard disk to work ensure that > 'lsmod' should display amongst others: > > ata_piix > libata used by ata_piix > > It both are not displayed you should say, > > # modprobe ata_piix > > This will load both 'ata_piix' and 'libata'. > > The ff command alone will not load both drivers. > > # modprobe libata > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
