klipp Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Is there any way of making MDK 10.1 (kernel 2.6.8) recognize a SATA drive? I've tried installing kernel 2.6.12-12 as it recognizes SATA drives on Mandriva 2006, but it didn't help the problem on MDK 10.1 Am I missing something, or is this just something that can't be done on MDK 10.1? Thanks for any "Words of Wisdom"! [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 The problem is not utilizing the SATA HD, but rather the SATA controller. MDK 10.1 is not terribly good at initializing several SATA controllers- if it isn't a big annoyance, please try using 2006.0, or building a custom kernel of your own (= newer than the really old 2.6.8.X). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klipp Posted July 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Hey scarecrow, thanks for the info, but I got it working. Using the 2.6.12-12 kernel from 2006 and manually loading modules: sata_nv & libata did the trick! For some reason you can't list the SATA drive in fstab, you have to manually mount it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 You shouldn't have to manually mount it. Put the entry in /etc/fstab, and then add the modules you want to load into /etc/modprobe.preload. You just add the module, so: sata_nv libata and then it'll probe them. Or at least I'm sure that should do the trick. Give it a go anyhow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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