Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 00:47, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:33, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:15, Justin Burke wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I could use some help getting Debian installed on a new machine with a
> > > SATA drive. I've downloaded CD images for both sarge and sid, and both
> > > installation methods hang at the same point:
> > >
> > > "Loading kernel modules
> > >
> > > Detected module 'ide-probe-mod' for 'Linux IDE probe driver'"
> > >
> > > I have reason to believe that the system is hanging because of the SATA
> > > drive. I think that I need to use a 2.6.0 kernel. Is this right? How do
> > > I create an installation CD with a different kernel?
> >
> > you need a fairly new kernel for SATA, 2.4.21 iwth ac4 patches, I
> > think. If you have a large SATA drive (>130GB) you also need libata5
> > patches from Jeff Garzik. I have 2.4.21-ac and manually applied libata5
> > patch (and 250 GB Matrox on intel D865PERL motherboard)
> >
> > Some of the newer kernels might work without ac or Jeff's patches,
> > hard to tell. Check the linux kernel mailing list archives (search for
> > SATA)
> >
>
> I'm using a fresh from kernel.org 2.4.22 without any patches for my 80 gig
> sata drive.
do you use it as:
- legacy IDE (setting in BIOS so that itr looks like regular IDE
drive [didn't try this one]
- IDE (looks like SATA but handled by IDE driver) [system freeze
during boot, when probing disks]
- SCSI (CONFIG_SCSI_ATA) [works but needs libata5 patches for >133GB
support]
thanks,
erik
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