On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 00:10 -0400, Prepaid wrote: > On 6/5/06, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an Abit AX8 motherboard, specifications here: > > http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/techspec.php?categories=1&model=215 > with Athlon 64 3000+. > I have tried both 3.1r2 i386 stable and 3.1r0a amd64 stable. > > The motherboard has four SATA ports. I want to use three of > these ports > for software RAID5. I am trying a single SATA drive on each > of the > ports. The first and second work fine with the Debian > installer, but > the third and fourth are not detected at all. BIOS detects > the drive > anywhere. It was suggested on IRC to set up a single-drive > JBOD array, > but the BIOS utility doesn't allow that. There are no options > in the > BIOS for SATA drives other than disabling the onboard RAID > utility, > which doesn't help. > > I know I don't have any hardware problems because I have > successfully > installed Fedora Core 5 on the drive when connected to the > third port. > > Why doesn't Debian detect the drive? More importantly, what > can I do to > make it detect it? I have tried all (only two) of the > parameters for > the sata_via (or via_sata) module. > > What installer are you using? Is it using a 2.6 kernel?
With the i386 DVD, I am using the 2.6 kernel; I boot using "expert26". However, on the amd64 DVD there are no "26" boot options available (I use "expert"), so I assume it is 2.4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
