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yes, it is a Seagate SATA II drive and strangely it came with with the
jumper already set to the slower SATA I setting.<br>
I might try swapping it over though as a final attempt at getting it
going.<br>
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<pre wrap="">yes, thats right,
no sd devices at all in /dev
Thats why I started digging a little deaper, checked kernel support and
it simply isn't picking it up at all.
I've come back to the conclusion the BIOS just isn't up to it.
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You said it was an early board to have SATA, so is the board only SATA 1
and the new drive SATA 2? The SATA 2 drives I have had you have to put
a jumper on them to make them work on SATA 1 ports.
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<pre wrap="">Thats weird, nothing comes up when you:
ls /dev/sd*
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Toby Mills <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:toby@np.co.nz">toby@np.co.nz</a>
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Thanks, yes tried both those, its a Gigabyte 8IPE1000 pro2
Running the latest bios and have run it as a secondary both as a
bridged IDE and as SATA (even tried running it as a primary and
disconnecting everything else).
Bios doesn't pick it up, and its not coming through to linux
either (nothing in a dmesg or lsmod).
It was one of the earlier boards to have SATA so I think its just
a little too old. The BIOS unfortunately doesn't have the raid
bits that I think are needed to get things going in Linux.
I'm not trying to boot off it, just trying to format and mount it
before I do my big upgrade next week.
Cheers
Toby
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<pre wrap=""> Maybe - try booting off a smaller disk and use the 500GB as a secondary
drive. Linux can deal with disks that the BIOS can't cope with.
Sam Banks wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> You need to flash your bios to support bigger disks, what is the model
of the motherboard?
Sam
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Toby Mills <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:toby@np.co.nz"><toby@np.co.nz></a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:toby@np.co.nz"><mailto:toby@np.co.nz></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> ok, so I get the feeling this is going to be one of those painful
experiences....
My older gigabyte motherboard on the backend isn't detecting my new
500Gb
SATA drive (checked in a PC at work and the drive is fine), tried IDE
mode
and everything I could google on it.
So I'm left with the following thoughts....
- Do I upgrade my motherboard, CPU and RAM just so I can use my new
Hard drive - but then most new motherboards don't have serial ports
to
change channels or enough PC cards to run 2 x Skystar + 1 x PVR150
and
another NIC.
- Or do I put the new drive in a USB2 case and put up with the
significantly reduced access speed.
- Or do I use the SATA for something else and get an IDE version.
- Or do I buy a NAS enclosure and run it so that the Frontends pull
media directly off the NAS rather than via backend.
- Or do I muck around for 3 days trying to get the BIOS to recognise
the drive.
In the end, I came to the conclusion that none of the above solutions
are
really ideal and all of the compromises are too high.
So I think I've decided to....
- Buy a Linksys NAS200 and will put the SATA drive into that, this
will be used for storing all none TV media like images, MP3's, xvids
and raw
video from my camcorder that hasn't been edited yet, i'll mount my
/myth/video directory on that using Samba.Works out ok because my
other
storage is splitting at the seams with non myth media.
- Bought another 500Gb Ide drive that will go into the myth box.
A few years ago I might have mucked around with it trying to get it
going,
but I've learnt that 9 times out of 10 when you do this, it will only
break
at some highly inconvinient point in the future and probably won't work
anyway. Unfortunately my first experience with SATA has not been a
pleasant
one.
Cheers
Toby
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