XFX Revo64 - 3 port sata controller

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Schnippzle

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Howdy,
Just bought one of these sata controllers for my linux box (Ubuntu 7.10) but I cant for the life of me get it to work properly. It shows up in Device Manager but I really do not know how to get to the hdd that is connected:

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I have a 500gb WD Caviar connected which (to me) seems correctly configured in the post bios settings for the card. Any advice or help is much appreciated.

Regards,

Schnipps
 
Rumor has it that the drivers have been in the kernel since version 2.6.13, so that should be OK. What shows up in lspci? What shows up in sudo fdisk -l ?

EDIT: For the second time today I've searched Google to answer someone's question here, though I'd hit paydirt only to discover that the OP'd made an identical post on a different forum. Shall I reply over there as well? :D
 
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pretty sure they use standard intel ide drivers (that's how windows can see them with no extra drivers installed)

i know very little about linux though

here's the newest firmware for the card (and the newest windows software management for it)

http://bleddyn.co.uk/forums/XFX.zip
 
Thanks. I have xp sp2 on the box as well so Ill try and update the firmware in windows, and then go back to linux. However if any one knows of a way to do this in linux, please speak up now :) Have also read that Suse 10.3 supports it so Im in the process of grabbing open suse to see if that works. Hopefully I wont have to resolve to installing it though.
 
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I have a 5port version on my second machine.

They do not need any drivers, infact they are driver less.
You have set it up wrong in the devices bios, see the manual.

If you want to use one drive you have to set it up as RAID 0
 
lspci:
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Fdisk:
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After looking at the output of the fdisk command I figure that the hdd is there, it just isnt installed, am I right?

E.D.I.T.: tried to use the command /mount /dev/sda1 but that didnt work as I got the response "can't find /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.
 
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sudo mkdir /media/btiisacooldude
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/btiisacooldude
cd /media/btiisacooldude

That should probably work. I'm not familiar with SFS as a filesystem though.
 
Id like to convert it to ntfs so it can be seen by other windows pc's on the network, as I guess the linux file system cannot. Would you know what the command would be to do that?
 
The filesystem in use doesn't matter for remote machines accessing the disk. The disk host takes care of reading off of the disk and sends a raw bitstream to the client. If the client wants to write that data to disk it can use its own file systems. There is no Linux command to convert a SFS partition to NTFS. There probably isn't one for windows either.
 
Tried to have a play with gparted :) Completely forgot about this great little app. It can see the hdd and I have now formatted it but it still wont show up :(
 
I've found this card a nightmare when you want to create a RAID1 array under linux.

I found you need to create a fat32 partition at the start of the disk otherwise it just won't work! :confused:
 
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