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Hi all,
I've had absolutely no luck in getting libata/sata_nv working with my nForce3-250Gb SATA. The "deprecated" IDE driver works fine, and this is the only way I can use the nForce3 SATA interface.
I have an Asus K8N-E Deluxe (also tried on Epox 8KDA3+, both boards are nForce3-250Gb), running Debian Sid and Linux 2.6.7 - 2.6.9-rc2. libata/sata_nv doesn't detect my drives in any of the kernels.
I was wondering, does this driver work for anyone at all? I get something like, "ata1 is slow to respond, please be patient", then nothing happens (no drives detected).
Thanks
don't forget to use the right devices
I'haven't an Nforce3 so i can't say if it's well supported, but for the case you didn't know it, you need to change your bootloader and /etc/fstab to use scsi disks. The first known disk in the system will then be /dev/sda.
Another reason could be, you don't use an initrd but scsi-disk support is compiled as a module. In this case you need to compile in the scsi-disk support(say [Y] in config) to be able to boot a SATA disk.
nforce3 + 2.6.8
hi
i'm using x86-64 fc2
i rebuilt my initramdisk with the command:
mkinitrd --preload reiserfs --preload sata_nv initrd-2.6.8-1.521.reiser.img.gz 2.6.8-1.521
the initram disk contains the following files:
/mnt/loop0
/mnt/loop0/bin
/mnt/loop0/bin/nash
/mnt/loop0/bin/modprobe
/mnt/loop0/bin/insmod
/mnt/loop0/dev
/mnt/loop0/dev/ram
/mnt/loop0/dev/null
/mnt/loop0/dev/tty1
/mnt/loop0/dev/tty2
/mnt/loop0/dev/tty3
/mnt/loop0/dev/tty4
/mnt/loop0/dev/console
/mnt/loop0/dev/systty
/mnt/loop0/etc
/mnt/loop0/lib
/mnt/loop0/lib/sata_nv.ko
/mnt/loop0/lib/reiserfs.ko
/mnt/loop0/lib/scsi_mod.ko
/mnt/loop0/lib/libata.ko
/mnt/loop0/sys
/mnt/loop0/proc
/mnt/loop0/sbin
/mnt/loop0/linuxrc
/mnt/loop0/sysroot
/mnt/loop0/loopfs
the system still fails to boot.
i tried to change the bood device from /dev/hde5 to /dev/sda5 but nothing changed.
2.6.5 boots fine.
best regards,
andrey
Workaround has been found...
nForce3 SATA (libata) bug:
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3352
AMDZone thread:
http://www.amdzone.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2300&sta...
Thanks to Hazmat on AMDZone :) .. hope for this to be fixed before 2.6.9 releases.. grave bug of libata on nForce3 SATA currently..
Lem
nForce3-250Gb SATA
Hi
I have an MSI K8N Neo Platinum mobo with a similar issue with only 1 SATA HD in the system. It is intermittent and when working is fine. I have however had to reboot/power on & off up to 5 times to get the system up. I am running SuSE 9.2 64bit with kotd 2.6.8-20041116124251
nForce3 SATA
SUSE9.2 Kernel 2.6.8 64bit
6B200M0 not work the sata_nv,
6Y160M0 work the sata_nv
sorry, Germany, not englisch
Walter Foersch