sata under linux-2.4.22(pached) problem
 

Hello,
I have main board Assus P4C800 Deluxe with two sata slots. I was looking for a way to make them work with my linux (RedHat 9) and regarding the info I found I downoladed the 2.4.22 kenel and I applyed the patch-2.4.22-ac4 patch to it. Compiling the so pached kernel I hound the SATA options under "SCSI support->SCSI low level drivers" section where I checked SATA support, Intel PIIX/ICH and VIA SATA. This kernel does detects the sata disks but detects them as SCISI. Later I am able to partition the disks with fdisk and it detects at least the disk's size corectly (122G).
The PROBLEM is that when I try to make a new file system on my partitions somthing goes wrong and fsck.ext3 on /dev/sda1(partition wich includes the entire disk) crates me a file system of 1.4G instead of 122G for example.

Thanks for any help
Vlady

from dmesg:
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ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEFE0 ctl 0xEFAE bmdma 0xEF60 irq 5
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEFA0 ctl 0xEFAA bmdma 0xEF68 irq 5
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scsi0 : ata_piix
scsi1 : ata_piix
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: 0.71
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: 0.71
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
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SCSI device sda: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB)
sda: sda1
SCSI device sdb: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB)
sdb: sdb1
..............

fsck is used for checking the file system. If there is no filesystem there it will probably freak out - I have no idea, never tried. Use mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 to create an ext3 file system instead.


Håkan

Thanks for the sugestion. Sorry for that, but when I wrote fsck.ext3 I ment mkfs.ext3. Now I installed kernel-2.6.1 and my problem is gone . Thanks again.