[lug] Adding Sata drives help

[Paul Nowosielski]

Thank you all for your help.

I booted up Knoppix and it had no problems seeing the drives. I believe this 
is a Suse related issue(one of many).

Thank you,

-- 
Paul Nowosielski


On Wednesday 28 June 2006 23:14, you wrote:
> Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have 2 sata drives I've pulled from another Suse box and I'm trying to
> > install them in my workstation running suse 9.1.
> >
> > I've installed them and verified their existence in the BIOS.
>
> Verified as in you see the BIOS report detecting it during POST or
> just that it shows up in some setup menu?
>
> I recently had a SATA drive that just wouldn't come up when added to a
> system that already had a SATA drive. New drive wouldn't show up during the
> post. Swapping signal/power cables and mb connectors didn't change things
> so I concluded it was a dead drive.
>
> Assuming your new drive is detected during post, are you seeing the kernel
> report checking the second SATA channel on the controller?
>
> This is what I get with no second drive attached:
>
> libata version 1.20 loaded.
> sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 1.1
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low)
> -> IRQ 177 sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 11
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9400 ctl 0x9802 bmdma 0xA400 irq 177
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9C00 ctl 0xA002 bmdma 0xA408 irq 177
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113)
> ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3c69 86:3c01 87:4003
> 88:80ff ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA7, 312581808 sectors: LBA48
> ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
> scsi0 : sata_via
> ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> scsi1 : sata_via
>   Vendor: ATA       Model: SAMSUNG SP1614C   Rev: SW10
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
>
> > When Linux boots up it appears not to see them.
> >
> > I am running Yast the Suse configuration tool to
> > find the drives.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to solve this?
> >
> > Thank you,