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Old 12-07-2004, 04:57 PM   #1
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SATA on Linux

I just purchased a brand neww Western Digital 200 GB SATA Drive and I want to installl Gentoo on it but unfortunately i dont know where to look in the dev folder to find the drive ive looked on the net but the devices they point me to dont exist. my system is:

MOBO: K8V-X
CPU: AMD64 3000
Drive: WD2000JD
Motherboard RAID Chipset: VT8237

PS the SATA RAID chipset is onboard no external card
 
Old 12-07-2004, 06:53 PM   #2
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In all the newer kernels, sata drives are designated as scsi drives. If you only have one drive it will probably be /dev/sda.
 
Old 12-14-2004, 10:12 PM   #3
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I tried cfdisk /dev/sda and it responded by saying the disk wasnt there or something so if you can give me an idea of how to enable sata that would be nice
 
  


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