SATA with Linux

External Since: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 1

Hi,
I'm using Mandrake 9.2 and I was wondering if there was any way to get SATA
to work with linux. Specifically, I have a Gigabyte Socket A M/B
GA-7N400Pro2, which has a Silicon Image Sil3112 Serial ATA controller. I
have a 120Gb SATA Seagate drive hooked up to this. Whenever I try to boot I
keep getting "hde: lost interrupt". I have searched the web and found people
who have managed to get other SATA chipsets working, but have found no way
to get the Sil3112 one working.

Is is possible to get this working under Linux? If not, since this is a
dual-boot machine, is it possible to force Linux to ignore the SATA HDD
(just using the SATA drive for windows), and install linux on an IDE drive
instead?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards
Luke

External Since: Jan 30, 2004 Posts: 1

Luke wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using Mandrake 9.2 and I was wondering if there was any way to get SATA
> to work with linux. Specifically, I have a Gigabyte Socket A M/B
> GA-7N400Pro2, which has a Silicon Image Sil3112 Serial ATA controller. I
> have a 120Gb SATA Seagate drive hooked up to this. Whenever I try to boot I
> keep getting "hde: lost interrupt". I have searched the web and found people
> who have managed to get other SATA chipsets working, but have found no way
> to get the Sil3112 one working.
>
> Is is possible to get this working under Linux? If not, since this is a
> dual-boot machine, is it possible to force Linux to ignore the SATA HDD
> (just using the SATA drive for windows), and install linux on an IDE drive
> instead?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Luke
>
>
I have seen refences to Silicon image SATA drivers but you would have to
visit their web site and have a look to see if they have a Linux driver
for that particular model though.

With respect to booting Linux of another drive that is quite doable. It
would be easiest to install a 3rd party boot manager like Boot Magic on
the primary bootable drive and use that to set your second drive to
bootable. You just install it from windows and then do your Linux
install to the second, IDE drive and install grub or lilo there also
then boot into Windows once more and go into Boot Magic configuratin and
it should pick up the new Linux partition so you can add it to the
choices for the boot menu.

Cheers,

Adam