Can't install on sata drive

theri om · 10-14-2006, 06:20 AM

I have a VIA VT8237 controller and a 80Gb sata drive installed on Ch0 with winblows xp on it.
I boot from the cd with huge26.s and it starts to probe my hardware but when it recognize the sata drive it displays:
ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA7, 156368016 Sectors: LBA48
#until here no problem but right after that:
ata1: qc timeout (cmd0xef)
ata1: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)

It finishes probing, i configure my keybord and it asks to format a drive to install but the cfdisk and the fdisk doens't recognize the my sata.

Eternal_Newbie · 10-14-2006, 08:30 AM

Try to install using the 2.4.x sata.i kernel, that should work. Then when everything is up and running install the 2.6.x kernel.

cereal83 · 10-17-2006, 10:53 PM

sata drive will usually be /dev/sda

use the sata.i or huge2.6s kernel when the cd loads up and it will detect it. To confirm you detected it, one the cd is loaded you can do "fdisk -l" and it will show all partitions of all harddrives on the pc that have been detected and if you see /dev/sda or /dev/sdb or something like that then it worked

ve1drg · 10-20-2006, 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cereal83

sata drive will usually be /dev/sda

use the sata.i or huge2.6s kernel when the cd loads up and it will detect it. To confirm you detected it, one the cd is loaded you can do "fdisk -l" and it will show all partitions of all harddrives on the pc that have been detected and if you see /dev/sda or /dev/sdb or something like that then it worked

I just installed Slackware 11 on a 80gig sata drive.
Works fine now that I turned RAID off. It see's the drive as an IDE drive once that BIOS feature is click off. So everything is as it should be.

And yes there place to mount these sata drives is /dev/sda.

Hope this note helps anyone out there..