Rod Butcher wrote:
The new driver-thingie is libata. But I never got it working, even though it claimed to load Ok. I had to use the old driver to use Sata. Ran out of time and interest to pursue it further. cheers
The 'libata' driver requires 'ata_piix' in kernel-2.6.9. Alone by itself, 'libata' is insufficient to make /dev/sda work.
So, to get your SATA hard disk to work ensure that 'lsmod' should display amongst others:
ata_piix libata used by ata_piix
It both are not displayed you should say,
# modprobe ata_piix
This will load both 'ata_piix' and 'libata'.
The ff command alone will not load both drivers.
# modprobe libata
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