Mounting SATA Question.

[goon12]

Hi,

I'm running Slackware 10.1, and I used the sata.i kernel from the kernels directory when installing. My current hard drive set up is: 2 40GB IDE drives, and I also have this new 120GB SATA drive I want to use ( just for storage ).

I don't know if the SATA drive is ever seen. Is there somewhere I can check? Is there a way to list all physical hard drives? What devices are SATA drives ?

Thanks,
goon12

[goon12]

Sorry, I figured it out..

I had the SATA cable attached to one of the SATA connectors for a RAID set up, when I just needed to attach the cable to a different SATA connector.

-goon12

[deathadder]

Just to answer your questions for furture reference or what ever :)

Is there somewhere I can check?
dmesg | grep SATA or sd

for a 2.4.x kernel try
dmesg | grep hd

Is there a way to list all physical hard drives?
fdisk -l (Lower case L)

What devices are SATA drives ?
In a 2.6.x kernel SATA drives are considered SCSI devices, so they are shown under sdxx

[StarTiger]

If you plug it into a a RAID Controller (I'm assuming this is built into the mobo) you could define it as a JBOD (Just a Bunck Of Disks) RAID. that just see's it as another harddrive, with no RAID'ing at all.