Quoting Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:53:49AM -0700, michael@etalon.net wrote: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?Yes they should. What does lspci -n show? I am wondering what chipset you have in that system. What options does the bios have for the sata settings?
Here's the output from lspci -n: 0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02) 0000:00:02.0 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02) 0000:00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01) 0000:00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01) 0000:00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 01) 0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev e1) 0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:27b8 (rev 01) 0000:00:1f.2 0101: 8086:27c0 (rev 01) 0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 01) 0000:02:00.0 0200: 11ab:4362 (rev 19) 0000:03:00.0 0200: 1186:1300 (rev 10) 0000:03:07.0 0c00: 104c:8024 The BIOS doesn't really have SATA settings, just settings for Integrated Peripherals From there I set "On-Chip SATA Mode" to Combined This gives me "PATA IDE Set to" [Ch.0 Master/Slave] Therefore on bootup, the POST shows that I have 2 IDE drives. If I change the On-Chip SATA Mode to Enhanced or Auto, the POST will show no IDE drives, but will show 2 sata drives. The GigaByte detailed spec shows: Northbridge: Intel 945G express chipset Southbridge: Intel ICH7 Further, I installed hdparm and ran hdparm -t /dev/hdc which resulted in a 3 MB/sec read test. Quite bad. So, it would be nice to get these running in proper sata mode. Thanks for all your help! cheers, Mike