Re: SATA + debian
From: Bryan Andersen (bryan_at_nerdvest.com)
Date: 01/31/04
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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 02:23:20 -0600 To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
First check to make sure you can run the SATA devices in PATA emulation
mode in hardware. If you can't, you will have to build a custom kernel
on a different system so you can use it to when you load Debian. If you
load using the SATA drives in PATA emulation mode, when you build your
new kernel with the libata patches you will have to set the root device
in the new kernel. Libata uses the SCSI subsystem so the devices names
will be /dev/sda and /dev/sdb rather than /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. There
is a little bit about this on the inux kernel email list.
I don't know about the motherboard and SATA controller you have. I'm
using a ASUS A7N8X (sil3112 SATA chipset) with a couple of Seagate SATA
drives on it. I'm using the libata patches on a 2.4.25-pre4 kernel.
Each revision of libata is increasing it's reliability alot so it pays
to get the latest. My SATA drives are in addition to my primary PATA
drives. I boot off of my PATA drives, but then I put the initial system
together long before SATA drives were genearally available.
- Bryan
Erik Steffl wrote:
>> Are there likely to be any troubles installing debian on a box with a
>> SATA hard drive?
>>
>> The chipsets are:
>> North Bridge: i865G
>> South Bridge: iCH5-R
>>
>> Can anyone point me to some good documentation relating to SATA and
>> linux?
>
>
> not sure what R in ICH5-R means (I have intel D865-PERL motherboard
> with ICH5, at least I think it's ICH5 and SATA works)
>
> you need fairly recent kernel (2.4.22 or something like that). Note
> that if you are using HD that's above 130GB you might need even newer
> kernel.
>
> I use 2.4.21-ac4 with libata5 patches (ac4 for SATA, libata5 for
> >130GB support)
>
> SATA disks can be seen as ide of scsi, I have only had success with
> scsi (kernel config CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y), otherwise the syustem
> freezes right after the disks are detected
>
> erik
>
>
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