Success report.
Hitachi 7k500 SATA hard drive
Intel Pentium D 820 CPU
ASUS P5WD2 Premium Edition motherboard
I found that Ubuntu can install to the SATA drive but Debian Sarge
cannot. I've used all sorts of remastered installers, including a
2.6.11 AMD64 version. The problem was not detecting
>I've really no idea where people get all their SATA issues from, it's
>not had issues for me since Woody 3.0r2 was current.
Lucky you.
I still don't know how to make Debian see the disk in AHCI mode,
which is required for Native Command Queuing (NCQ).
I think if Lenart Sorensen remasters a
> Someone let me know if it works. What I would like to know is:
>
> Does it work at all (I tested it up to partitioning disks on SATA WDs on
> VIA controller).
Tested up to partitioning stage.
> Does it support AHCI.
Yes, if I manually run insmod on libata.ko and ahci.ko. Otherwise
the disk i
> Does [Sorensen's 2.6.12 AMD64 installer] work at all [...]
Nope.
"No installable kernel was found in the defined apt sources"
"The current default kernel package is kernel-image"
"Youmay try to continue though this rather strange error is
probably fatal"
> could you resubmit [ the installation-report ] ?
Can't. The box is currently behind NAT and doesn't have SMTP
configured. Reportbug tried to send directly to Debian's MTA but
it timed out.
> Looking at what we have in discover1-data, most of your hardware is
> currently listed as "unknown" (
> http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/
This image works, and I did a successful install with AHCI.
I had to manually call insmod on libata.ko and ahci.ko,
depmod did not work.
Now that I have a working AHCI system, I cans ee what changes
in the lscpi results when I switch the BIOS settings
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