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

["Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Mario A Wojcik <mariowojcik@yahoo.com.ar> posted
44A7247C.1010403@yahoo.com.ar, excerpted below, on  Sat, 01 Jul 2006
22:42:20 -0300:

> 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.

You may do as you wish, but you know stage-1 is discouraged, correct?  A
stage-3 install is recommended, and after an emerge --emptytree world, you
end up at the same place anyway.

That should not be your problem here, however, as you would still need to
fdisk.

> It already reviews everything and profit not to cause that it works.
>    1. - The serial ATA disc Places as in the bios (nonraid)

Good.

>    2. - Treatment to use it like scsi, but does not appear to me 
> /dev/sdxx (single /dev/hdd that is the reader)

This would be the problem.  It should be /dev/sdX.

>    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)

You need to find someone with that chipset to help, if possible.

What is your specific motherboard/mainboard?  Someone may have it.  If
not, we can at least check the manufacturer's web site for it and
hopefully get all the specifications, chipset, but more also.



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