get sata disk on ibm t43 as sda

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:29:41 +0100, Henning Sprang <henning_sprang at gmx.de> said:

    > I have a machine with a sata disk. On the preinstalled Ubuntu running on
    > that machine this is run as sda.

    > But FAI sees them as hda, talking to them via the IDE driver. The same
    > effect as described here:
    > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux#No_DMA_on_system_hard_disk

    > Basically it says, when this happens, the disk is accessed via the IDE
    > driver, and with disabled DMA. But the proposed solution there, giving
When FAI does not activate DMA support for an IDE disk, that means the
generic IDE driver is loaded before the special IDE driver for you
chipset. Try to force to load the IDE driver for your chipset (in
20-hwdetect.source) before discover-modprobe is trying to load a
generic driver. If you are doing an installation with fai-cd this it
more complicated, as you have to patch mkinitrd-cd.
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regards Thomas