20471 – SATA Support on the Livecds

Bug 20471 - SATA Support on the Livecds

Summary: SATA Support on the Livecds

Status:	RESOLVED LATER

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Release Media
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Bob Johnson (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-05-05 08:23 UTC by Bjorn
Modified:	2003-05-12 00:02 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Bjorn 2003-05-05 08:23:40 UTC

I have an asus nforce board that uses the SiI silicon image serial ata 
controller. 

Currently the only way i can install Linux on a drive on the SATA controller 
is using the 1.4rc4 CD and booting the SMP kernel. 

However if i have a RAID array (0 or 1), the SMP kernels SATA driver does not 
detect the SATA disks at all.

Perhaps we need to add full SATA support in both the SMP and non-SMP kernels 
on the livecds

Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-12 00:02:59 UTC

This will be done as soon as we have better silicon image  
driver support.