SATA Upgrade (re-post after HW problem was resolved)

[Verde Denim]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:48 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 08/07/2008 06:45 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ok - So after all the fiasco of the crazy hardware issues with bad
> media
> >>> vs bad iso vs bad hardware vs PEBKAC,
> >>> I have Ubuntu 7.10 server (LAMP) runninig on a Dell Dimension 4500 with
> >>> the following:
> >>> 80GB IDE (Ubu is installed here)
> >>>
> >>> Silicon SATA 3512 SATA I card
> >>> 500GB SATA drive (Dr. 0)
> >>> 400GB SATA drive (Dr. 1)
> >>>
> >>> During the install, I was asked if I wanted to install Ubuntu on the 80
> or
> >>> the 500 GB disc (at the time, it didn't see the second drive).
> >>> When the machine boots, both drives are seen during startup.
> >>> After Ubuntu is up and I login, I can see /dev/sda1 is the 80GB IDE,
> but
> >>> no others.
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to get these drives fdisked and set up for use, but am not
> sure
> >>> how. I'm googling at the moment, but if anyone can throw some
> information or
> >>> urls my way it might shorten up the search.
> >>>
>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Look here:
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DrivesAndPartitions
> >>
> >> cheers
> >>
> >
> > The problem here is this - looking in hwinfo and lshw, I have /dev/sda
> (the
> > IDE drive), and /dev/sdb (the 500GB SATA), but the second SATA drive
> (which
> > I would have guessed would be /dev/sdc) is not found on the system. Can I
> > create this manually ?
> >
>
> I wonder if this might help:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/203195
> <quote>
> Solution:
> After activating AHCI in the bios setting and booting from CD/DVD one
> need to press F6 to enter further boot parameter: pci=nomsi
> Now the hdd and other sata devices are recognized correctly due the
> installation. Don't know if its really a bug..
> </quote>
>
> Another:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/209454
> <quote>
>  btherio wrote on 2008-07-06: (permalink)
> I'm having this exact problem on an asus a8v-mx.
> I read here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/18/103
> I changed sata to ahci in the bios, added only the line pci=nomsi to the
> kernel boot line, and it seems to be working.
> </quote>
>

 fdisk -l shows the IDE (80GB) and the first SATA (500GB) drives.
dmesg|grep -A 5 sata_sil shows the same, although I'm a bit confused by what
I see there - it seems to indicate that /dev/sda is within this data,
although I know that /dev/sda1,2,5 are the 80GB IDE drive.

NoOp - I don't see any sort of option in this BIOS to do this - "After
activating AHCI in the bios"
But, can I change add "pci=nomsi" to the boot line after the install, and
would the system 'right' itself ? It seems from reading these that they are
only done on an installation (so I would essentially reinstall the OS)

Jack

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