Re: installer can't find disk

[michael@etalon.net]

Quoting Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>:

> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:20:58AM -0700, michael@etalon.net wrote:
> > Just got a new GA-I8945GMF board with 2 x SATA II drives.
> > Using a Pentium 4 630 (EM64T)
> > I have the full AMD64 CD disc 1 installer, and its having trouble seeing
> > the drives.
> > I have configured the sata drives to exist outside the IDE Primary and
> > secondary controllers from the BIOS.
>
> Probably means your sata / ide controller is newer than what 2.6.8
> supports.
>
> > I'm not sure what to try next.
> > I was thinking I could get an old IDE drive, slap it in there, and install
> > the system on that, and then try to get the SATA drives working.
> > However, I would eventually like to the have the system boot off the
> > SATA drives.
> > or,
> > I could try getting the AMD64 sid installer. (or maybe an etch one if
> > it exists?)
> > But I couldn't find a place to download the ISO Image for AMD64 sid.
> > Is there a link for it?
>
> You could try my 2.6.12 amd64 sarge install cd if you want.  Might
> support your chipset.  Not sure if yours is the ahci one or not.  If it
> is you probably have to manually do 'modprobe ahci' on console 2 during
> the install to load the driver.
>
> http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/

Hi,
Thanks for the link, I tried the iso and it was the same as the others.
However, I went back into my BIOS and changed it so my SATA drives showed
up as IDE drives (Secondary Master, and Secondary Slave)
My CD-RW is on the Primary Master.
Now when I use the regular AMD64 Sarge disc, it detects my drives
as hdc and hdd.
I guess I can install the system on this, but I wonder if I'm getting the full
potential speed out of these. They should be sda and sdb if I'm using 
the correct module right?

Mike