Osiro <vinicius.osiro@gmail.com> typed on 2008-05-11:
> On 11 maio, 12:52, Bartosz Oudekerk <bartosz@see_my_GnuPG-key.com>
> wrote:
>> Osiro <vinicius.os...@gmail.com> typed on 2008-05-11:
>>
>> > And I realized something strange, I don`t have a IDE Hard Disk, is a
>> > SATA.
>> > So, why the available partitions are hda instead of sda? Do I need to
>> > change some kernel configuration? How can I do it?
>>
>> I've seen this before, it seems the ide-disk driver is picking up your
>> sata drive. Reconfiguring your system to use it like this is not really
>> an option, as it's impossible to enable DMA.
>>
>> The easiest way is to add hda=noprobe & hda=none to your kernel
>> parameters, then ide-disk will skip it and the correct driver will be
>> able to pick up your drive as sda.
>>
> Some linux forums said to reconfigure kernel with support to SATA
> drivers, do you think this is one way to solve it?
> I'm analyzing my kernel configuration now, but I don't have idea how I
> can do it?

If you're using one of Pats pre-compiled kernels, SATA support is in
there, the problem is another driver picking it up first. The kernel
parameters I specified earlier, tell the driver to leave the drive
alone so the correct driver can then pick it up.

To fix it in the kernel, you'd have to compile a kernel without
ide-disk, or ide-disk as a module which you could load after booting.

Note: I don't know if ATAPI devices (like your cdrom) use the driver. I
don't think so, but it's not really an issue if you compile it as a
module, I don't recall ever needing my cdrom drive till after booting.

Note2: I'm pretty sure it's ide-disk, but I haven't tested this by
removing ide-disk from my kernel(yet), like I describe above.

Note3: Please don't quote my .signature when replying.

Regards,
--
Bartosz Oudekerk
I think a better name for PAM might be SCAM, for Swiss Cheese Authentication
Modules, and have never felt that the small amount of convenience it provides
is worth the great loss of system security. -- Patrick Volkerding