William Kenworthy wrote:
If you have sata drives, and they are showing up as hdx, you have
something seriously misconfigured. They should be showing as sdx.
Deselect everything in ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL and select the relevant boxes
in serial ATA. Dont forget fstab will need redoing to match.
I always thought that if you select both, serial ata should take
precedence, and in some cases you can access via both, but I have at
least one machine that will only work as sata with all the older ata
stuff deselected.
BillK
Cheers,
This is why it's doing my head in. I have a desktop with both sata pata
drives in with a very similar kernel config and it work as expected :-/
I will try removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff tonight, and report
back later.
Thanks again for the help
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:47 +0200, Wayn0 wrote:
Renat Golubchyk wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:51:02 -0500 "Mark Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I'd also recommending after checking for the above, also check what
level of UDMA is set. Try this: hdparm -I /dev/hda | grep -i dma
Yours should say probably either udma3 or udma4.
Why not udma5 ? All my PATA drives (desktop and notebook) run at udma5
for some years now without any problems.
Thanks to everybody that's replied so far.
I may have missed something kernel wise but my sata drives are
registering as hd* and it refuses to switch on dma.
I have no doubt this is a kernel config, just not sure where to look.
I don't have the laptop with me at the moment so I will post the kernel
config this evening.
or perhaps somebody knows right off the bat what the problem is and what
I need to enable and disable.
I am using the latest gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r8 if memory serves.
Thanks again
Wayn0
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