[Soekris] Net5501 - Debian 4.0 "Etch" - from EIDE to SATA

[Diego Pastore]

Hi Joel,

another question: I already have a pata hdd mounting kit, can I only buy 
standard sata data and power cable rather than sata mounting kit?

sata mounting kit is cheap, but shipping to Italy are very expensive, 
four/five times as kit cost!

Diego

joel jaeggli ha scritto:
> The 5501's sata port isn't on a sata controller. It's a pata sata bridge attached to the parallel ata interface.
>
> Joel 
>
> Diego Pastore <diego.pastore-3576 at poste.it> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Nix,
>>
>> I dist-upgraded to Debian "Lenny" 5.0 and now I've 2.6.26 kernel.
>>
>> And yes, I use a Debian stock kernel and stock initrd image, but I'd 
>> like to know SATA kernel module name, and if and how I need to "force" 
>> loading SATA kernel module and/or rebuil initrd image in order to have 
>> SATA module loaded.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> Diego
>>
>> Nix ha scritto:
>>     
>>> On 19 May 2009, Diego Pastore said:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>>>> #
>>>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>>>> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>>>> /dev/mapper/pastrix1-root /               ext3    
>>>> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>>>> /dev/hda1       /boot           ext3    defaults        0       2
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> This becomes /dev/sda1, and you'd better make sure that vgscan runs on
>>> the next boot (which I think happens automatically). As everything else
>>> is using LVM, the vgscan should pick it up.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Module                  Size  Used by
>>>> ipv6                  213984  42
>>>> tun                    10368  1
>>>> pc87360                17040  0
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> It looks very like you're using a Debian stock kernel. This should pick
>>> up SATA stuff automatically --- but I'd *really* recommend doing a
>>> dist-upgrade to Debian 5.0 first, as SATA support in 2.6.18 was really
>>> very embryonic (there were a lot of major bugs, all of which have since
>>> been shaken out).
>>>
>>> Other than that it should just work.
>>>   
>>>       
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