Second SATA disk not detected

Zangai · 05-05-2008, 10:03 AM

I have a installation of SlackWare 12.1, and I got the SATA drives. They both got a 320GB capacity, and are of the same type, which is ST3320820AS.

Only one of those is detected. When I switch the SATA cables on my disks, the other one is detected.

I have tried several live CD's like the bootcd of SlackWare 12.1 , Ubuntu 8, and a knoppix version dated from 2003, which was the only one that detected my second SATA drive.

I have absolutely no clue what to do, please help me detect this disk.

farslayer · 05-05-2008, 10:44 AM

Bad cable ?
SATA Interface on motherboard disabled in BIOS ?
or other SATA related BIOS setting is incorrect ?

What type of motherboard is it ? What SATA controller is on the board ?

Zangai · 05-05-2008, 11:43 AM

I dont know what type of controller is on my motherboard, how can I find it out?

H_TeXMeX_H · 05-05-2008, 11:50 AM

It should be in the motherboard manual if you have one, and it should also be listed if you run '/sbin/lspci'. I would ask how many SATA controllers you have, but you wouldn't know, just run the command and it will be on there.

Zangai · 05-05-2008, 12:53 PM

This is the result of 'lspci':

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Security Device
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 5287 (rev 20)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 91)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 91)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 91)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 91)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 90)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 PCI to PCI Bridge
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7650 GS (rev a1)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 PCIE Root Port
04:00.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 PCIE Root Port
04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller
07:09.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1)
07:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev c0)

I have 4 physical SATA interfaces on my motherboard.

farslayer · 05-05-2008, 01:14 PM

Quote:

00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 5287 (rev 20)

This isn't really a good sign..

Does one of the pairs of SATA ports support RAID (per the manual)?
If so I would probably disable that set and use the other pair..

might want to update your pci.ids file to see if it can recognize that other device..
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/

in Debian I simply issue the command update-pciids to update this file with the latest version from the net. Dunno if that will work for you or not .

ronlau9 · 05-05-2008, 01:21 PM

If enter you,re BIOS set up there is a option called BOOT if you click on it it has some option one of them is about the hard drives if you choice this option are both drives there

all the best

Zangai · 05-05-2008, 04:30 PM

@ronlau9:

I have already verified that both disks are detected by the BIOS.

@farslayer:

I have updated the list as you said, but when I run it again, it still says its unknown. A manual lookup gave me this:
5287 ULi 5287 SATA

[EDIT]
I have connected my second HD to another interface on my MB and it worked, workaround found

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H_TeXMeX_H · 05-06-2008, 01:31 PM

I think one of the controller is just not being detected or is not supported. Many newer boards have 2 SATA controllers.

RubyX · 05-23-2008, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zangai

I have a installation of SlackWare 12.1, and I got the SATA drives. They both got a 320GB capacity, and are of the same type, which is ST3320820AS.

Only one of those is detected. When I switch the SATA cables on my disks, the other one is detected.

I have tried several live CD's like the bootcd of SlackWare 12.1 , Ubuntu 8, and a knoppix version dated from 2003, which was the only one that detected my second SATA drive.

I have absolutely no clue what to do, please help me detect this disk.

I found this problem here on the forums using Google and I have the same problem.

I am using Ubuntu LiveCD to try out a linux OS (I am new to Linux) but the OS doesn't detect my secondary master HDD (in IDE), it detects my primary master.

I am also running Vista and Windows XP on the primary master and they do detect the secondary master.

Is there an other reason why the harddisk doesn't show up in the Ubuntu install view?

EDIT: I fixed the problem, Cloned my primary harddisc to the secondary one (a larger one) and than swapped them.
So the additional place on the secondary one (now the primary one) is available for installation.