Hi all, I have some problems in mounting an USB SATA HD drive...
The SATA drive is in a conceptronic USB box with external power supply. The HD is a 200gb SATA (the box is compatible with all IDE/SATA drives up to 400gb).
I'm on slackware 10.2, kernel bare.i 2.4.31.
I've tried to install slack with sata.i and ataraid.i kernel but nothing changed.

The USB ports are OK, when I use my USB IDE HD they work perfectly.

When I turn on the USB box with the SATA HD, dmesg doesn't show nothing about it, and with fdisk -l are listed just hda and hdc drives, that are my IDE HDs.

I don't know if I have to load a specific module with modprobe or install new drives, but I don't think so. Anyway I'm new to linux, so please don't avoid basic questions and advices...

Sorry for my bad english pal

Alot of questions here, actually.

To get better responses, go to the Slackware forum here.
They should be able to respond to you alot faster.

As far asv SATA goes in Slackware, you will need the modules compiled. Ask in the forum how to do this, and you should be fine.

Also, check out Shilo's excellent guide.

Thanks cwwilson! I'll go post in the slackware forum and read the guide ASAP!

I posted this topic in Slackware section but a mod locked it, then I tried to send a PM to a mod to move this topic in the Slack section, but it says I cannot send PMs.
If a mod sees this topic, could please move it in Slack section plz?

Anyway could someone help me with my problem plz? It's quite important to use at 100% my pc, and I'm trying to fix it since 2 weeks ago, it's quite frustrating...

Tnx @ all

Ok, due to the lack of help I've tried to do something on my own, again...
Now when I turn on the SATA USB HD device with dmesg I get this message:
dmesg|tail shows me this line ONLY if I do an fdisk -l first, if I turn on the SATA hdd and type dmesg|tail it shows nothing about the hdd...
I hope someone can help, please... It's very important... Tnx...