Hard Drive not detected

[TerryP]

Is there any reason why a sata hard drive would fail to be detected besides uncompatiblity?

So far the only operating systems to detect my hard drive has been Windows NT, FreeBSD, and PC-BSD. I was thinking unsupported controller or something, but could it be something in my BIOS ??

[Charles]

This happens all the time with cheap SATA Raid controllers such as SiS, etc...
What is your mobo?

[krell]

this happens with me when i use SOME
linux distributions/kernels.
I think it was kanotix...which is debian based.
One of the kernel choices given by kanotix at boot time worked though.
I have two sata drives ..only one was being deteced.

Slackware based distros(zenwalk, vector) seem to have no problem
getting the sata drives detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
I have also had no problem with Opensolaris and OpenBSD
And of course PcBSD

[TerryP]

It's a gateway so I'm sure it's a cheap $1600 media computer. Details here

I have a Intel Cortez G2 945G Viiv Motherboard & HDS725050KLA360 Hitachi SATA II hard drive. Listed under SCSI and Raid controllers in windows device manager is a : Intel 82801GR/GH SATA Raid controller if that helps any.

Going by /var/run/dmesg.boot

atapci1: <Intel> port 0x20c8-0x20cf,0x20e4-0x20e7,0x20c0-0x20c7,0x20e0-0x20e3,0x20a0-0x20af mem 0x94200000-0x942003ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0

ad0: 476940MB <HDS725050KLA360> at ata2-master SATA150

Maybe I'll try slackware, no luck with debian based distros and well, umm I'm not a red hat fan! Open Solaris is an interesting idea though. - My one excuse to run Linux = ALSA Driver for my sound card.

PS: What the **** is a uBTX 4-layer form factor (motherboard)

[krell]

Hi! I see we have similar systems..mine is an i915 chipset
and like your it has integrated AC'97 audio.

I don't know why in the world you would want to use ALSA with that!
It's buggy with linux 2.6 kernels..What I mean is it does not do
full sound mixing so if you play a song using one app
and then start another app, say a game of chess that clicks
audibly when u move the pieces. the clicks will be muted until the song finishes.
I have tried several linux distros and they all have this problem.
(5 years ago I had better linux sound with a PII and a cheap SOLO 1
soundcard)
PcBSD using OSS mixes sound perfectly.
You can however recompile linux kernels to use OSS
and http://www.opensound.com has some free drivers for linux
with ac'97

[Charles]

I found the specifications of your card. It says "Four Serial ATA interfaces" but it doesn't say what brand and model :?

[TerryP]

Yes, I know Gateways info data is total crap. No idea if it's listed in /var/run/dmesg.boo I'll take a look.

Hi! I see we have similar systems..mine is an i915 chipset
and like your it has integrated AC'97 audio.

I don't know why in the world you would want to use ALSA with that!
It's buggy with linux 2.6 kernels..What I mean is it does not do
full sound mixing so if you play a song using one app
and then start another app, say a game of chess that clicks
audibly when u move the pieces. the clicks will be muted until the song finishes.
I have tried several linux distros and they all have this problem.
(5 years ago I had better linux sound with a PII and a cheap SOLO 1
soundcard)
PcBSD using OSS mixes sound perfectly.
You can however recompile linux kernels to use OSS
and http://www.opensound.com has some free drivers for linux
with ac'97

If you've gotton your onboard to work I'd love to know the details; I've gotton errors from it at boot time in PC-BSD and it had problems with my mic e.t.c. in windows so I went out and bought a CL Audigy 4 without checking hardware support first ops: but I here there are ALSA drivers for the audigy 4, based on those for the audigy 2 - and no OSS drivers for my audigy 4... So I can't play MP3's which hinders my programming studies and ends the idea of getting my games to run on PC-BSD.

[krell]

Well, I didnt do anything...
sound was autodetected.
Acording to opensound.com all AC'97 are should work
with oss. maybe your on board sound is not ac'97?
I think mos on board sound is ac'97 though...

[TerryP]

Well, I didnt do anything...
sound was autodetected.
Acording to opensound.com all AC'97 are should work
with oss. maybe your on board sound is not ac'97?
I think mos on board sound is ac'97 though...

Integrated Audio Intel High Definition Audio subsystem consisting of:

* 8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and one S/PDIF optical digital audio output using the Sigmatel® 9220 audio codec

I don't follow the onboard sound stuff much but thats what it has to say about it. (Off topic any way)

I have still yet to find any possible reason why Windows and Free/PC BSD are the only OSes to detect my hard drive besides unsupported hardware.[/quote][/code]