Simple question on installing Ubuntu on auxiliary SATA drive...

[Kevin Chan]

Colin,

Thanks for the reply!

My AMD64 machine uses an ASUS K8N-E motherboard (nForce3 250Gb chipset).

Here is the lspci output:

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gentoo root # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e1 (rev 
a1)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e0 (rev 
a2)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce 250Gb PCI System 
Management (rev a1)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e7 
(rev a1)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e7 
(rev a1)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e8 
(rev a2)
0000:00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb Network 
Controller (rev a2)
0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Parallal ATA 
Controller (v2.5) (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA 
Controller (v2.5) (rev a2)
0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to 
PCI Bridge (rev a2)
0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI 
Bridge (rev a2)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 NJ 
[Radeon 9800 XT]
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 NJ [Radeon 
9800 XT] (Secondary)
0000:02:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 
04)
0000:02:08.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game 
port (rev 04)
0000:02:08.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire 
Port (rev 04)
0000:02:09.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet 
(rev 10)
0000:02:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 
Host Controller (rev 80)
0000:02:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD 
Technology Inc) SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 
02)
gentoo root # lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 10de:00e1 (rev a1)
0000:00:01.0 Class 0601: 10de:00e0 (rev a2)
0000:00:01.1 Class 0c05: 10de:00e4 (rev a1)
0000:00:02.0 Class 0c03: 10de:00e7 (rev a1)
0000:00:02.1 Class 0c03: 10de:00e7 (rev a1)
0000:00:02.2 Class 0c03: 10de:00e8 (rev a2)
0000:00:05.0 Class 0680: 10de:00df (rev a2)
0000:00:08.0 Class 0101: 10de:00e5 (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 Class 0101: 10de:00e3 (rev a2)
0000:00:0b.0 Class 0604: 10de:00e2 (rev a2)
0000:00:0e.0 Class 0604: 10de:00ed (rev a2)
0000:00:18.0 Class 0600: 1022:1100
0000:00:18.1 Class 0600: 1022:1101
0000:00:18.2 Class 0600: 1022:1102
0000:00:18.3 Class 0600: 1022:1103
0000:01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4e4a
0000:01:00.1 Class 0380: 1002:4e6a
0000:02:08.0 Class 0401: 1102:0004 (rev 04)
0000:02:08.1 Class 0980: 1102:7003 (rev 04)
0000:02:08.2 Class 0c00: 1102:4001 (rev 04)
0000:02:09.0 Class 0200: 1186:1300 (rev 10)
0000:02:0b.0 Class 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 80)
0000:02:0c.0 Class 0104: 1095:3114 (rev 02)

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-Kevin





On Sep 22, 2004, at 4:42 AM, Colin Watson wrote:

 > On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 04:33:41AM -0700, Kevin Chan wrote:
 > > I have an Athlon64 machine with 3 drives -- an IDE main drive with
 > > Windows XP, and 2 auxiliary SATA drives. I have gentoo installed
 > > already on one of the SATA drives and would like to try Ubuntu on 
the
 > > other SATA drive (already partitioned from a previous Fedora
 > > installation, which I want to replace hopefully with Ubuntu).
 > >
 > > The problem I encountered while going through the Ubuntu 
installation
 > > process (I'm using the warty-amd64 CD) was that the installer 
detects
 > > only my main IDE drive but not the auxiliary SATA drives. I've tried
 > > booting in "expert" mode but the result is the same. There doesn't 
seem
 > > to be a choice of which drive I can partition.
 >
 > Please send me the output of 'lspci' and 'lspci -n', run from your
 > existing Gentoo installation.
 >
 > You may also like to try a daily CD build, which includes detection 
for
 > SATA drives using the NVIDIA chipsets common in amd64 systems.
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 > --
 > Colin Watson                                    
[cjwatson at canonical.com]
 >
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 >


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