Hmm, shouldn't do that. try this at boot prompt:

boot: noprobe=/dev/hde noprobe=/dev/hdg

You may need to compile in something you missed into 2.6.7 or d/load the newer patch for libata. I am not sure why VIA's do that in 2.6.7 but it is a common 'problem' and have seen others with the same thing happen. Jeff (Garzik) told me about the noprobe thing to try and get libata to discover the sata drives as scsi first...(before eide driver does) I am going to write the linux-ide kernel mailing list and see whats going on with this....

Do a hdparm -t test and see what kinda speed your getting when they are discovered as HD (IDE)devices.. and compare to them as SCSI devices if you get the chance....

bc

Sorry my account with yahoo it's fucked

Hey thanks for the info ...... I didn't even think it was an issue because I haven't noticed any problems. I ran hdparm and got about 54 mb a second .... should I be seeing faster transfer rates than that?

And since I'm already loaded and configured how do I go about switching? I still have the other kernel there so I can boot into it no problem to make changes ...... is there an option I need to add to lilo?

thanks.

Just leave alone for now.. I emailed the mailing list (LINUX-IDE) and maybe Jeff will respond. As I said this a common thing. And from what i have read about it, when your drive(s) come up as HDx devices they are unstable (whatever that means..) but I wouldn't worry for right now.. If it works it works. Also, between 50-60 is perfect! As I recall a 'fast' EIDE drive gets about 10-20 a sec, so as you can see SATA rocks.

Glad it's working out...(sort of. )

bc

........ yep it seems to be stable as a rock .... Fedora did the same thing and I never had a problem. So I'll take the old addage "if it ain't broke ... don't fix it".


Thanks again for the info.

Hi, thanks to all who have helped out, with this. And especially bone crusher, since I downloaded your sata.i kernel and got my asus p4p800 deluxe working no problem (except sound, but that is different)

But I have to reload slackware, since I kind of killed it

and now my floppy drive doesn't seem to work. or well, maybe it does. its just the install.1 rootdisk that doesn't work. Failing with some sort of read sector error (sorry, can't remember what exactly it was as it was a few days ago)
I was wondering how I would go about putting the sata.i image onto the install cd. I tried sticking it in the directory with all the other boot images, and I got some funny error message about a checksum. I am currently trying to get the already posted sata.i install cd. But there are zero seeds for it right now, nor have there been for the past hour.

I know I could probably get it working again if I swapped floppy drives, and re-burned the iso file and created the floppy again (I went through two floppies, so wasn't a floppy problem) But I would like to save going into my computer again. Just lots of cables to hook up and what not.

thanks a bunch to any and all who help. (also, I did try google a bit, but to no avail, I found what I was looking for. Maybe just some deeper searching, or different search terms)

Also found that the spell checker thingy doesn't have slackware, or google, or iso, and some others. Just pointing out. and also, first post here. Been lurking this forums off and on, mostly through google searches. Hope I can help out others in the future from the help I have received from reading this one

The site linked earlier in this thread has a bootable CD image of the first Slack install. Use that and you will be good to go.

hmmm... ok.. I went through all the pages in this thread already, and only found the one in the yahoo briefcase, with the .torrent file extension? If so, then it is not working, as there are no seeds for that torrent. I would happily host it for someone, if bandwidth were not an issue

Or were you refering to something I missed. The only post that had links to do with anything like sata that was somewhat what I was looking for was post #9

Terribly sorry ...... I was posting to several threads at once and got my replies mixed up .... a thousand apologies.

But yes Bonecrusher's link has the CD ISo that you can burn that is the first CD in the Slack set up but it has SATA support built in.

hehe.. tis alright... i have done the same at least twice

But anyways.. there be no one seeding it, I can't get any bit of it. I got the torrent alright, and I know that Azureus is working alright, as I downloaded Slax live iso, as well as all four slack 10 cds from it. and am even seeding out for others as we speak. oh hey... I just realized I got the new knoppix downloaded... I should go burn and try out.

....... sorry I'm not at home and can't fire up my PC to seed the ISO for you .....

I will be home in about 7 hours though and can try to do it then if you would like.

sure, would be good

although, would be easier, and more fun for me if I could figure out some way of getting it on there. but sure. I am typing from my work PC right now, so I wil leave this on, as I always do. I have dialup at home, so I don't really want to do it on that. hehe.

but yeah. Thanks a bunch

Certainly ... glad to help.

Pygobombe:

I have been trying to seed the ISO for awhile now, but every now and then it goes down and I don't notice, a better method (Especially since you have been waiting for so long), is to make a visit to my WEB PAGE (4Elements) , and look to see where the new FTP site is...
(I would post it here now, but I can't remember off top of my heaqd, and anyway I would like you to read a little bit about what to do before you go downloading..)
About your floppy problems, 9 times outta 10 read errors for floppies are because of a damaged floppy disk. (Trust me that they can become garbage rather easily). Anyway I would re-rawrite a new disk and try that. Make sure you use a (Brand new) disk or one that is practically new.


If you have the ISO already, then your good. I know it will DEFINITELY work for your PC, because (and I may have mentioned this before) as you can see below in my sig, I have the same exact MoBo as you! And since it works great for me, well you get the idea.

bc


PS:
Sorry it took so long to see your comments, I have been rather busy lately with other projects...

Hey, thanks for the reply. yeah, I know that floppies die quite easily. I should really clean my floppy drive, and/or get a different brand of floppies. Actually, I bet a different brand would help. None of these floppies seem to be all that great.

but anyways. thanks for the link. I shall start reading away.

OMG... I haven't posted this yet.. stupid having so many instant messaging conversations at once. lol