Re: Finding and installing drivers - HOWTO?

I demand that Charlie Gibbs may or may not have written...

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The BIOS sees the SATA drives, but the kernel doesn't. The old motherboard
had a VIA chip set, while the new one has the nVidia nForce 430 chip set.
Perhaps my installation (Slack 10.2, kernel 2.6.13) doesn't have a proper
driver - I've heard I need one called sata_nv, while all I can find in
/lib/modules/2.6.13/kernel/driver/scsi are dpt_i2o.ko, ipr.ko, sata_sis.ko,
and sata_xs4.ko.

In that case, I think that all that can reasonably be done is for you to
upgrade your kernel or - probably the better option - use this as an
opportunity to upgrade the whole installation.

You *really* don't want to be using any release which no longer has security
support; OTOH, I have no idea whether Slack 10.2 is still supported. (Though
apparently Debian sarge security support will be ended in a few months'
time.)

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