Ant: Re: Ant: detecting SATA2
I have 1024MB of Ram. The make is:
DDRRAM Corsair TWINX 320. Is it likely that the bios
is messed up? I didn't fiddle with it and its a brand
new mobo so the vendor is unlikely to offer a more
recent bios.
--- Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
schrieb:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 03:33:19PM +0200, Peter
> Sheldrick wrote:
> > Thank you very much! I couldn't wish for better
> > replies!
> >
> > I now connected my SATA2 disc to a SATA connector
> > although the mobo handbook advises against it.
> When i
> > start the installation with a cd made from
> > sarge-amd64-2.6.12-netinst.iso available at
> > http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/, i modprobe
> > sata_uli and the installer detects my disc :). But
> > when i try to format it, at one stage or the other
> i
> > get at least:
> > "Kernel panic - not syncing: PCI-DMA: high addres
> but
> > no IOMMU"
> > "Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing
> interrupt
> > handler!"
> > the furthest i got so far was past the formatting
> -
> > installing the base system - but then one of the
> > errors above occured.
> > Knoppix detects the disc and i can mount it - but
> > lsmod did not show sata_uli *puzzled*.
> > So what do you guys recommend? Should i use a IDE
> HD
> > instead? Is it likley that this is a silly mistake
> or
> > some serious incompatibility where even if i
> manage to
> > install debian ugly errors are going to crop up
> later?
>
> Well I haven't used the Uli chipset so I have no
> idea how good/bad it
> might be or how the support is for it (other than
> support at all is very
> recent in the kernel).
>
> How much ram do you have?
>
> I am surprised at the 'no IOMMU' message unless you
> have 4GB or more of
> ram and the bios is misconfigured and/or broken.
>
> Len Sorensen
>
>
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