SATA Upgrade (re-post after HW problem was resolved)

[Verde Denim]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:19 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> On 08/07/2008 08:07 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:48 PM, NoOp <sniprudeemailquoting> wrote:
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>> >  fdisk -l shows the IDE (80GB) and the first SATA (500GB) drives.
>> > dmesg|grep -A 5 sata_sil shows the same, although I'm a bit confused by
>> what
>> > I see there - it seems to indicate that /dev/sda is within this data,
>> > although I know that /dev/sda1,2,5 are the 80GB IDE drive.
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>> > NoOp - I don't see any sort of option in this BIOS to do this - "After
>> > activating AHCI in the bios"
>> > But, can I change add "pci=nomsi" to the boot line after the install,
>> and
>> > would the system 'right' itself ? It seems from reading these that they
>> are
>> > only done on an installation (so I would essentially reinstall the OS)
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>> > Jack
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>> No idea, I don't have SATA. I only ran across those looking up something
>> else & thought that you might find it helpful to have a read through the
>> bugs. It certainly couldn't hurt to try pci=nomsi at boot (just use the
>> 'e' edit function in the grub menu), and if you find it works then add
>> it to your /boot/grub/menu.lst. Be sure to take some time and actually
>> _read_ through the bugs; you're likely to find something in them that
>> might be helpful.
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> I read through them and there were a few 'workarounds' worth trying.
> Unfortunately, no joy.
> I did call the vendor for the card, who assured me that the card does work,
> as he is running it in an Ubuntu 8.04 (gnome) system. He suggested that I
> remove the second drive, and attach it to another system and make sure that
> it is pre-formatted to ext2/ext3 and then putting it back in the system to
> see if the OS recognizes it, because the shadow BIOS sees it at boot-up, but
> the kernel doesn't acknowledge it when the OS is loaded. I'm going to try
> that as well. He also suggested that the second drive might need a jumper,
> but I'm not sure that these drives have a place for a jumper, so I'll go
> with the pre-formatting option and see if that does it.
>
> Jack
>

Sadly, still no joy. The first drive (500GB) is recognized and can be
mounted, but even after formatting the second (400GB) and putting it back in
the system, it is not recognized. I'm wondering how it might work if I set
up the two drives as a RAID0 in the utility which is presented in the shadow
BIOS?


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