Slackware 10 doesn't see SATA drives

Hi friends!

Slackware 10 is working fine on my "old" Celeron IDE machine. No problem.
Now I tried to install it on a a brand new AMD64 with dual SATA Raptor drives that Santa Claus brought me early this year.
Problem: it doesn't see the SATA drives!
What should I do to install Slackware on a SATA based machine?

Thanks to all of you,

Jayhel

If I recall correctly, I had to use the scsi3.i kernel.

good luck -tw

Mine worked fine from install with no configuration at all with the bare.i kernel 2.4.26

I use an ATA to boot but SATA for storage.

Maybe your BIOS settings aren't right?

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Tks for your email.
I tried again using the scsi3.s kernel.
No way!
You said and I quote:
"Maybe your BIOS settings aren't right?"
The BIOS settings for the ASUS K8V Motherboard are either:
Use the Onchip SATA BOOTROM (enabled in my case)
or:
Use the Onboard Promise controller (disabled in my case)
Do you think that if I were to use the Promise controller instead of the SATA BOOTROM it would fix the problem?
I ask you the question because if I have to do that then I will have most likely to reinstall Mandrax which is up and running on one of the SATA drives.

Jayhel

If you've got a Mandrake install up and running on one of the SATA drives then what is the problem?

Does the machine boot to SATA? Is it a pure SATA environment or are there IDE drives mixed in?

?????

Yes, it boots to SATA.
And it is a pure SATA environment: 2xSATA Raptors.

Jayhel

If you have broadband I'd go this route:

Slackware SATA ISO

Here it is on FTP if you don't want to mess with BitTorrent. Looks like there was only one seeder anyway.

After you hit the desktop and decide that you might want to recompile your kernel for some reason, you'll need to PATCH your kernel to have permanent SATA support. The options in the kernel are under the SCSI Low-Level Driver options after you patch.

The ISO is the original Slack 10 disk-1 only has a sata.i bzImage that it defaults to on the instalation. It's what I use for my Seagate Baracuda ONLY system.... I don't know why Pat still isn't supporting newer hard drives.... If you want to not bother with that, there are SATA floppy images available here and there...
THIS ONE should work for you...

All those links are compliments of Bonecrusher here on the forum. Do a username search on him if you need more info on SATA for Slackware.

For some people, they get lucky using the scsi kernels, but most are not so lucky and need to coax Slackware into recognizing their hard drive thru an alternative means.

or here for http:

sata ready cd 1 for Slackware

Question about the kernel.

Does the 2.6.7 kernel on the 2nd CD of Slackware 10 support Sata?

Yea, it does but you can't use a 2.6 kernel for the instalation. Only 2.4.26

Thanks H2O-Linux.

I just did as you said and downloaded slack_v10-d1-sata.iso overnight.

Works fine, turn key.

Jayhel

Originally posted by jong357 Yea, it does but you can't use a 2.6 kernel for the instalation. Only 2.4.26

Very true about only booting from the 2.4.26 kernel. I had downloaded the modified cd1 a few weeks back for a friend that wanted to put slack on his sata drive. I just wanted to check and see if 2.6.x support sata without extra patches and such

I will be giving it a try after my school semester is complete.

Kernel 2.6.X support SATA but the version on the second cd is compiled without SATA built in. I used boncrushers bootdisk at first but i now use the sata.i from slackware-current (you have to install modules and such AFTER the first boot). Currently though, I compiled up 2.4.28 with SATA support (integrated into the vanilla kernel since 2.4.27) with the openwall patchset for added security. Works like a charm.

The SATA 2.4 kernel I downloaded doesn't have the Gigabit adapter option. I can't connect to the Internet.
Is there a patched 2.4 kernel compiled with Gigabit support available?

I'm actually downloading dvd image with sata.i on it

if anybody interested then:
ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/ISO...ent-ISO-build/