SATA partitionning issue

cferron · 03-15-2006, 06:30 PM

Hello,

I have a working slacware 10.0.0 installed ono my ATA hardrive (/dev/hda1). I have connected a SATA hard drive to the system and for a reason I cannot format/partition it?

The motherboard is an ASUS P5P800SE. The dmesg give me this output:

Quote:

ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xB400 ctl 0xB002 bmdma 0xA000 irq 18
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xA800 ctl 0xA402 bmdma 0xA008 irq 18
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : ata_piix
ata2: SATA port has no device.
scsi1 : ata_piix
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380817AS Rev: 3.42
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0

sfdisk returns:

Quote:

sfdisk -l /dev/sg0
No error tells me that everything should be ok so far. device appear as /dev/sg0

Disk /dev/sg0: cannot get size
Disk /dev/sg0: cannot get geometry

Disk /dev/sg0: 0 cylinders, 0 heads, 0 sectors/track
llseek: Illegal seek

sfdisk: seek error on /dev/sg0 - cannot seek to 0
/dev/sg0: unrecognized partition
No partitions found

There is no way I can partition it altought... is there something I'm doing wrong?

HELP

raska · 03-15-2006, 06:56 PM

try it with /dev/sda

that's my first SATA hard drive

when I connect an USB flash memory it's recognized as /dev/sdb

cferron · 03-15-2006, 07:01 PM

There is no /dev/sda.... this might be related with the fact that the disk size is not even recongnized...

Claude

p0f · 03-15-2006, 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cferron

There is no /dev/sda.... this might be related with the fact that the disk size is not even recongnized...

Claude

Hi

What kernel version are you using? --> "uname -r"

Im on 2.6.15.6 and my sata drive is on /dev/sda, it could be different on 2.4 stock kernels.

Regards

cferron · 03-15-2006, 09:44 PM

Sorry for my inexperience here... I should at least have provided this information in the first place

Kernel 2.6.8.1
Processor: Intel Pentium D 820

Claude

cferron · 03-15-2006, 09:54 PM

Just found my problem!

SD_MOD was compiled as a module (have to do that because of error with frequent compact flash card mount/unmount) also the module wasn't loading automatically at boot... so basically,

modprobe sd_mod

did make /dev/sda appear so I could partition the disk.

My next question, how do I make LILO bootable on it (will it keep /dev/sda1 forever?)

Thanks for your time everyone!

Claude