Hi,

I need SATA drivers for Linux that supports:
Product:Motherboard
Series:Socket 775
Model-P5GC-MX/1333

I tried out the linux drivers which are given on their site but that includes only LAN and Audio drivers.

Plz do reply.

SATA drivers are in the kernel. They will load automatically (usually). For the LAN and audio too ...you will not usually require drivers from a site.

In the bios settings, select 'ahci'

Post output of

#lspci -vvv

or

#lshw

Hi
I am getting error after typing ur either of the commands.
And the main problem is that we are missing ahci driver for our motherboard and that is why we are not able to install linux.

I m getting the drivers for windows but not for linux
Kindly help me out

Thank you

hi,
This is the output:


00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01)

Kindly explain me also

1. Are you using RAID, if not disable it in your bios

2. You need to pass boot time kernel parameters for the sata driver to load

ADD

all_generic_ide

OR

generic.all_generic_ide=1

(or other variants to your kernel line (edit grub.conf/menu.lst afterwards too))

something like

kernel ... ...quiet all_generic_ide

I am not sure whether your sata driver is ahci or
sata_via

But you can find it from #lsmod

Other options (do not try if the above works)

ata_generic.all_generic_ide=1 pci=nomsi

module=ata_generic noirqdebug

Mine is
sata_via

And I added ata_piix and usbnet module in my initrd but now when I install linux from my USB ,it doesnt accept any of the drivers and shows the error:
insmod:error installung lib/ata_piix......so on for each and every module that are been installed

Plz help me out.
and thanks for the reply u have made earlier.

Thanks a lot

ata_piix is not meant for your hardware. If it is sata_via, then ahci may not be useful.

Try to install from dvd/cdrom with the boot parameters mentioned above

Also try to update your bios.

disk model? make?

Hi,
U said in ur earlier post that I must look for the all_generic_ide driver. I searched a lot but cudnot found any useful link.Can u plz tell anysite fron where I can get the drivers for kernel-2.6.24.3
I mean I can download them so that I can insert them into my initrd.

And ya I somehow need achi drivers I just have their .c file, is there anyway to get their Makefile.
Plz do reply.
version for ahci is 1.2

Thanks a lot