Getting SATA2 Drive to work on 9.3 with VIA 8237
Hope a guru out there can help with this.... I've been googling, rebooting, reconfiguring, updating BIOS, and am at my wits end. I have a SUSE 9.3 system with the following; MSI K8MM-ILSR Motherboard Onboard VIA chipset with VIA 8237 Bought a brand new Western Digital WD 1600JS 7200RPM 160 GB SATA2 drive to drop into the box thinking that my biggest challenge would be to clone the stuff off the two existing IDE drives. Was I mistaken.... Although the board, the VIA 8237 specifically, supports SATA, what I've learned is that it is 1st generation, not 2nd generation. After much googling, I have; 1) reflashed the BIOS to the latest version and enabled IDE-SATA 2) Set a jumper on the drive that WD calls 'OPT1', which forces it to a 150 mb/second transfer rate instead of autonegotiate, which isn't supported in SATA1 3) Finally gotten Win XP Home (which I left on the system when I bought it, but I never use... sure glad I kept it around <g>) to actually see the new drive, although XP sees it as a SCSI drive.... What I haven't been successful in doing is getting SUSE 9.3 to detect the drive, dmesg shows the following cryptic lines that I believe are related to the problem. sata_via version 1.1 sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): SATA master/slave not supported (0xa2) sata_via: probe of 0000:00:0f.0 failed with error -5 But I haven't had any real luck googling the above. So, does anyone have any ideas on how I might proceed? Since XP sees it as a SCSI drive, is there some Linux trick I have to implement to get the same result? Any ideas welcome! Scott -- Nullus est instar domus POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.14-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-11-04 at 20:34 -0800, Scott Leighton wrote:
But I haven't had any real luck googling the above. So, does anyone have any ideas on how I might proceed? Since XP sees it as a SCSI drive, is there some Linux trick I have to implement to get the same result?
Try a newe SuSE version, like 10.1 or .2 - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFTc7jtTMYHG2NR9URAlTkAJ9bRvKjjGjsXNT6+SW6Pib5C7/spACeL4ZA xNDRHQ+TY830kP2XY1IjBCY= =9eXB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sunday 05 November 2006 02:45, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2006-11-04 at 20:34 -0800, Scott Leighton wrote:
But I haven't had any real luck googling the above. So, does anyone have any ideas on how I might proceed? Since XP sees it as a SCSI drive, is there some Linux trick I have to implement to get the same result?
Try a newe SuSE version, like 10.1 or .2
I have a new machine in hand that will also need solid SATA support. No clue about the chipset yet. How long till 10.2 is ready for prime time? Any one know its scheduled release date? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Sunday 05 November 2006 22:10, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 05 November 2006 02:45, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2006-11-04 at 20:34 -0800, Scott Leighton wrote:
But I haven't had any real luck googling the above. So, does anyone have any ideas on how I might proceed? Since XP sees it as a SCSI drive, is there some Linux trick I have to implement to get the same result?
Try a newe SuSE version, like 10.1 or .2
I have a new machine in hand that will also need solid SATA support. No clue about the chipset yet.
How long till 10.2 is ready for prime time? Any one know its scheduled release date?
December 7
On Sunday 05 November 2006 12:12, Anders Johansson wrote:
How long till 10.2 is ready for prime time? Any one know its scheduled release date?
December 7
Oh Great... Pearl Harbor Day. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Sunday 05 November 2006 3:45 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2006-11-04 at 20:34 -0800, Scott Leighton wrote:
But I haven't had any real luck googling the above. So, does anyone have any ideas on how I might proceed? Since XP sees it as a SCSI drive, is there some Linux trick I have to implement to get the same result?
Try a newe SuSE version, like 10.1 or .2
Just got home from work and thought I'd try your suggestion, but with 10.0 since I have the boxed set here. In prepping to do an install, I reconnected the second IDE drive (I had used the power cable on that drive to power the SATA drive) and put the SATA drive on it's own power cable. To my complete surprise, when I powered up the box, all three drives were recognized. The SATA2 drive got picked up as /dev/sda. I guess, for some reason not clear to me, having that second IDE drive powered off screwed something up enough to prevent detection of the SATA drive. Anyways, to say the least, I am delighted. Now off to install 10.0 just for grins..... Scott -- Et tu, Brute POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.14-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-11-05 at 19:31 -0800, Scott Leighton wrote:
In prepping to do an install, I reconnected the second IDE drive (I had used the power cable on that drive to power the SATA drive) and put the SATA drive on it's own power cable.
To my complete surprise, when I powered up the box, all three drives were recognized. The SATA2 drive got picked up as /dev/sda. I guess, for some reason not clear to me, having that second IDE drive powered off screwed something up enough to prevent detection of the SATA drive.
I can only theorize. In some devices, they can get enough power from the data signals to power themselves up at least partially and do weird things. It's typical of CMOS chips. But why doing that in the IDE parallel cable would affect the different serial bus is beyond me.
Anyways, to say the least, I am delighted. Now off to install 10.0 just for grins.....
Glad to hear that. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD4DBQFFTySOtTMYHG2NR9URAnBbAJ4oR+dW4FB24p8bNj/Jd12grUeIjgCYjYsz 1vTza3HFW8MzJBHYSY4FEQ== =5c01 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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