[ale] SATA experience

[Jeff Hubbs]

That is, provided that you can in fact mount the partitions on the 
drives.  If you can't, then the LiveCD couldn't bring the SATA 
controller up.

Jeff Hubbs wrote:

>Other LiveCDs may work the same, but the way to go with Gentoo LiveCDs 
>is to boot up and use lsmod to see what modules it picked, along with 
>lspci to see what you've got in there.
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>Jeff
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>Geoffrey wrote:
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>>danlambert at bellsouth.net wrote:
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>>>I have an MSI Neo 4 motherboard (MS-9025, if I recall correctly) that
>>>I'm using a WD 320 GB SATA drive on, and it works perfectly using
>>>Kubuntu 5.10.
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>>>I would think that it must be a problem with the Gentoo distro,
>>>although i wouldn't hazzard a guess as to whether the distro is
>>>broken or you have some problem with the particulat compile that you
>>>have.
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>>I suspect it's probably a missing module or some such.  I'd give a 
>>bootable cd a try if you haven't already.
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