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Re: installer can't find disk



On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:03:03PM -0700, michael@etalon.net wrote:
> You are the man!!!
> I ran your custom iso 2.6.12 AMD64 Sarge and went to the second
> console. I didnt' see a sata_piix module, but I ran
> modprobe ata_piix
> I then went back to the installer console and re-detected hardware.
> This time it found my sata drives.
> Note: This time I set my BIOS back to defaults and left them out of the 
> IDE area.
> 
> I finished the install, and now I have the proper /dev/sda device and 
> not /dev/hda.
> I quickly slapped in hdparm to do a minor read test.
> It showed 61 MB/sec disk reads.
> Sweeeeeeeeet,
> 
> Thanks again for your help!

No problem.  Can you tell me the lspci -n output on your machine now?  I
will try and add it to the auto detect list sometime soon.

Len Sorensen



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