Debian - Abit IS7-E2 SATA

[deathadder]

After a reinstall of Debian, I can't get my onboard SATA working, the motherboard is a Abit IS7-E2. This is partly because I can't find the name of the controller. I can't see it in the manual or online. However I'm using the same config file as I did on the old Debian install, which worked fine.

dmesg only shows /dev/hda, my IDE hard drive, and /dev/hdc the dvd drive. There's also no sign of it in fdisk -l.

Does anyone have any ideas what I need to include in the kernel to get the drive running? I can attach the config I'm using if need be. Its not a problem with the actual drive, both the BIOS and Windows detect it fine. I don't really want to have to reboot into Windows each time I want to listen to my music :)

Any suggestions or pointers would be greatly appericated.

Thanks for any help.

[cybertron]

Any messages from the BIOS on boot? Mine lists my SATA controller (Silicon Image 3112 or something like that) in the boot messages. It might say something about RAID too (instead?), and that might indicate which chipset you need to compile in support for.

[bwkaz]

Does Debian have any way of automatically managing the entries in /dev? Something like either udev or devfs?

If not, could the problem merely be that the device files need to be created?

[deathadder]

I've got it sorted out now, it turns out that libata was selected, while CONFIG_SCSI_SATA wasn't :confused: CONFIG_SCSI_SATA was selected when I used this .config for the other kernel compiles, before the reinstall, oh well I guess it proves not to recompile a kernel, when you've been living off coffee for the last 6 or so hours :)

Thanks anyway cybertron and bwkaz

[cybertron]

Oddly enough, I've noticed the same thing. I reinstalled recently and had to recompile my kernel. For some reason PCMCIA got unselected, even though it was before and I used the same .config. No wonder my wireless card quit working:)

[deathadder]

I'm glad its not just me :)

Does anyone have any idea why this happened?