get sata disk on ibm t43 as sda

Henning Sprang henning_sprang at gmx.de
Fri Jan 6 00:10:32 CET 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 10:08 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> [...]
> 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.

cool. added 

modprobe ata_piix

at the very start of 20-hwdetect.source, built a custom FAI kernel with
the necessary modules (there where still some needed, the kernel is
compatible with the other machines) and it worked fine.

Henning





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