[KLUG Members] testing SATA drive

[Tim Gray]

I would fire it up with a slackware installation disk in the CD drive to boot 
from and at the boot: prompt enter sata.i

You ought to be able to interact with the sata drives as if they were a SCSI 
drive (/dev/sd*).

At least that works on my ASUS Mobo with a Promise SATA controller.

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 03:45 pm, bill wrote:
> My neighbor brought over a dead computer recently.  Apparently they had
> lots of hacking problems, removed them all (so they say) and then,
> --surprise! -- the computer no longer would boot.
>
> A quick look shows the BIOS no longer recognizes the HD.  The drive is
> connected o.k. and spins up.  I couldn't find any place to put in the HD
> parameters manually.
>
> The drive is Serial ATA and I don't have any other boxes that have that
> interface to test whether it is the drive or the computer.  Any ideas?
>
> kind regards,
>
> bill

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--Tim Gray
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