Asus K8N motherboard and SATA HD

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:12:34PM -0400, Meng Cheah wrote

> There is no option for settting the BIOS to SATA, native or otherwise, even 
> with the latest BIOS (2006).
> In Type, the options are:
> Not Installed
> Auto
> CDROM
> ARMD
>
> On the hard drive, the only option is to jumper it to 150Mb/s or 
> 3.0Gb/s(unjumpered).

  Sorry for the late reply.  I had similar problems with a Dell D530
that I bought last summer.  Here's an excerpt from an email I sent to
the Gentoo mailing list after I finally figured it out...

>   I checked dell.com's support knowledgebase.  Only the most recent
> kernels support SATA drives in IDE mode, and it looks like the Gentoo
> 2007.0-r1 kernel isn't recent enough.  After screwing around a bit, I
> finally found a way to boot the install CD, after which I was able to do
> the install.
> 
> ***WARNING***
> You will *NOT* be able to boot Windows in the following setup
> (One... Two... Three... awwwwwwwwwwwwww)
> 
> - reboot and go into BIOS setup ({F2} key)
> - go to "integrated peripherals"
> - change sata mode from IDE to RAID
> - save and reboot ({F10} key)
> - go into BIOS setup ({F2} key). Yes again.
> - comment; if you watch carefully during the boot, you may notice the
>   "AHCI BIOS installed" message.
> - go into "boot device configuration".  It will behave slightly differently
>   thanks to "AHCI BIOS" being installed.
> - set boot device priority.  Note; if you have more than 1 CD/DVD, you need
>   to specify them separately, if you want to be able to boot off both of
>   them. There are only 3 available slots, so I sacrificed the floppy.  This
>   left me with the 2 CD/DVD drives and the hard drive as the boot order
> - save and reboot ({F10} key)
> 
>   Now run the usual install.  One thing to note in kernel settings
>   (I use "make menuconfig").
> 
> Device Drivers  --->
> < > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support  --->
> <*> Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers  --->
> <*>   AHCI SATA support
> 
>   The 3 items above
>   1) turn off ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support, which is no longer needed
>   2) open up the ability to select SATA support
>   3) supports the AHCI BIOS that is installed in RAID mode

  I went and totally got rid of old-fashioned IDE-mode to reduce the
size of the kernel.  I don't know if your situation allows this.  Note
that you *MUST NOT* enable raid partitions, just raid functionality,
unless you actually want to use raid.

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