Re: Re: Installing Debian sarge on SATA

Deepak Mohan said on Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:28:19AM -0500,:

 >  i tried running the installer again and tried "alt+ctrl+F2 followed by
 > enter"
 > but when i type "lspci" its not recognising the command
 > i think there is only one chipset by ati which runs for the 939 platform and

Try dmesg instead of lspci. 

Also, are you qsure that this is a SATA problem and not chipset detection
issue? Have you tried an ordinary EIDE Harddisk? 

Hmmm.... if it is the ATI chipset issue, try the following link:-

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-37947.html

<quote>
Try installing  the ATI x64  driver for the  Xpress 200P here,  it may
have support for the disk controller as well as graphics. 
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBList.asp?folderID=1016
</quote>

 > i dont think anymotherboard manufacterer has a linux driver for it.
 > since mine is a branded machine they havent specified which make my
 > board is.  i ran sisoft sandra from windows and found that the make
 > of the board is asus.  but the funny thing is that asus have no ATi
 > chipset boards  in the offering for  AMD.  When i  try running live
 > Ubuntu  or live  Kubuntu, both  are getting  stuck just  b4 showing
 > desktop.i can hear the nice wind  chime intro but it just dont boot
 > up!  It works  just fine with windows XP 64  bit edition though.  I
 > think it will be just a matter of finding the SATA drivers.

The kernel has  excellnt support for sata; I  am myself running Debian
(only main) on pure AMD64, Sarge, on  MSI Neo M/B with VIA chipset - I
expressly forbade  my vendor from using  any other chipset  due to the
h/w issues;  and also took a knoppix  CD along with me  to test before
taking delivery.
 
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Mahesh T. Pai

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