[ubuntu-uk] Please can someone look at this and try to help............ SATA Hdd Problem.

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Rohan Omard <nem2killu2 at yahoo.co.uk>:
>   Hi Mike
>
>   Thank you for your suggestion , however the problem that I have   
> Does concern a pci Sata controller, to whit; The Highpoint 1540 4   
> port Sata controller. I too have 2 onboard Sata controllers, both   
> are in use, hence the use of the interface card to attach another   
> Sata hdd. Details  are on the link below if you wish to check out   
> the full history of this........
>    162104 Sata hdd works on feisty live dvd but not if installed to   
> hard drive
>
>   Many thanks for taking the time to think about a solution.
>
>   Kudos
>
>   N3m3sis

A quick google for "ubuntu highpoint 1540" returned the following:

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http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#highpoint

HighPoint RocketRAID 1540/1542/1544/1640 & 454 (HPT374 chipset),  
RocketRAID 1520 (HPT372, HPT372N, or HPT372A chipset), and Rocket 1520  
(HPT302N chipset ? non-RAID) PCI cards ? fakeraid. Supported by  
drivers/ide's hpt36x driver, by at latest 2.4.21-pre5. No libata  
driver exists for these, but Alan Cox is working on one (as of  
2006-01). Note: Some recent HighPoint cards use Marvell 88SX50xx chips  
(for which see separate driver info). Problematic proprietary Linux  
i386 binary drivers for HighPoint fakeraid (release 2.0 of which is  
reported to malfunction or even fail to compile on later 2.6 kernels  
ranging, at least, from 2.6.8 through 2.6.14) are available, but, as  
usual, you're better off using Linux's own open-source "md"  
software-RAID driver. (Warning: You'll need to load the proprietary  
driver only into kernels lacking the conflicting drivers/ide htp36x  
driver, in the presence of which your system will seize up, at boot  
time.)

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Googling the chipset (HPT374) returned a blog post (  
http://stefan.freyr.org/?page_id=6 ) which details how to get the  
module and use it properly on Ubuntu.  Follow the instructions and pay  
extra special attention to the "blacklisting" and "initramfs" sections  
or you will not be able to boot into Linux and will have to revert to  
the live CD!

DO NOT RUN THE "fdisk" COMMAND AT THE END OR YOU WILL LOOSE ALL OF YOUR DATA.

Hope this helps, and in future remember...google is your friend! :o)

Matt.



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