Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems with Serial ATA disc

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Mario A Wojcik wrote:
> Hello.
> Sorry by my english!
> I am trying to install gentoo from stage1, and when initiating my
> equipment, amd64 with mother asus, chipset via  and serial ATA disc
> western digital of 80gb, profit not to do fdisk because I do not have
> /dev/xxx aiming a  this.
> It already reviews everything and profit not to cause that it works.
>   1. - The serial ATA disc Places as in the bios (nonraid)
>   2. - Treatment to use it like scsi, but does not appear to me
> /dev/sdxx (single /dev/hdd that is the reader)
>   3. - It does not appear /dev/hdx either, because law that podria to
> take /dev/hde
>  4. - It tries to load by hand module sata_via, but it does not do
> anything (it must be because already this loaded according to dmesg)
>  5. - it deals with acpi=off with equal result.
>   Chipset is a route vt8251    Some of You podria to help me, really
> not that but to prove (already the books were burned to me)
>
Try knoppix and check what drivers are loaded
# lsmod

or simply do:

zcat /proc/config.gz  >  /your_config.cfg

than you can build custom kernel with working drivers.

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