XFX Revo64 - 3 port sata controller

[Schnippzle]

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:

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

 

[Schnippzle]

At work atm, will check as soon as I get home. And yea, posted on another forum as well

 

[Schnippzle]

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.

 

[Schnippzle]

Not at home yet Still in work, only 12:05 here lol. Going to gym at 17:00 so Ill be home at around 19:00.

 

[Schnippzle]

lspci:

Fdisk:

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.

 

[Schnippzle]

The 500gb one. Ubuntu is installed on sdb2, xp on sdb1.

 

[Schnippzle]

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?

 

[Schnippzle]

Ah cool fair play Learn something new every day.

 

[Schnippzle]

tried the sudo mkdir /media/erik
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/erik but I get this:
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist.

 

[Schnippzle]

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