sata trouble

[Armin Pirkovitsch]

albi at scii.nl wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:16:55 +0200
> Armin Pirkovitsch <a.pirko at inode.at> wrote:
> 
> 
>>  I wonder whether anyone here can help me with a little problem:
>>I just bought a notebook with a VIA VT 6421 sata controller and a 
>>Samsung HM080JI sata harddisk.
>>The controller is recognized with 6.0 B3 but it can't identify the 
>>harddisk - i get the following error:
>>
>>unknown: timeout waiting to issue command
>>unknown: error issueing ATA_IDENTIFY command
>>unknown: timeout waiting to issue command
>>unknown: error issueing ATA_IDENTIFY command
> 
> 
> not really an answer to your question, but.. i'm using 6.0-BETA3 here
> with basically the same controller and a SATA maxtor disc (and 1
> IDE-disc + 2 dvd-drives) without problems :
> 
> pciconf -lv|grep SATA
>     device   = 'VT8237  VT6410 SATA RAID Controller'

that's a diffrent one...


> $ dmesg |grep ad6
> ad6: 190782MB <Maxtor 6B200M0 BANC1980> at ata3-master SATA150

again a diffrent piece of hardware :p

> are there possible BIOS-options for the SATA on your machine ?

nope, nothing in bios about it (but the preinstalled windows works)

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Armin Pirkovitsch
a.pirko at inode.at