SATA detection

[Tony Alfrey]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>> OK, I'm trying to install blag linux, which has an installer that
>>>> searches for drives.  It does not find my SATA drive controller.  But
>>>> the bios sees the controller mounted on the PCI buss and announces the
>>>> two drives I installed.  When I set the bios up on this Gigabyte
>>>> motherboard to select boot order, it offers me a list of possible boot
>>>> devices.  It does not offer a "plug-in controller" like the bios on my
>>>> intel MB, but it does offer a SCSI option.  I assume that this must be
>>>> the same as a plug-in controller.
>>>>
>>>> So I cannot tell if this is a problem with the installer not knowing to
>>>> look for a SCSI controller or if this is a bios problem.
>>> Is the SATA controller not being detected, or is the disk attached to it
>>> not being detected?
>>>
>> When the installer looks for hard drives, it cannot find those attached
>> to the controller.  It does not separately talk about seeing a
>> controller or disks, it just cannot find disks.
> 
> Does the controller detect the disk during POST?

I don't know what is POST.

<snip>

> 
> If the controller is detected, then the problem isn't the driver.
> 

I don't know how to know if the controller is detected by the installer 
(kernel).  I "know" that the installer cannot find the disks and I am 
assuming that is because it does not know how to find the controller.
I know that bios sees the controller and disks.


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Tony Alfrey
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