Asus K8N motherboard and SATA HD

[Meng Cheah]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> 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.
>   
Thanks, Walter.

Both a colleague and the tech at PC Village informed me that I should be 
able to find the answer in the BIOS.
I'd checked the Internet and the BIOS but did not find a solution.
The tech at PC Village was willing to help me if I brought in my computer.
I decided to exchange the SATA drive for an IDE drive.

I found 2 options in the BIOS:
Internal SATA IDE Interface Enabled/Disabled
RAID Option ROM Enabled/Disabled

I'll give it a shot the next time I lay my hands on a SATA drive :-)
Thanks for the help again.

Meng



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