Re: [Hampshire] System Upgrade Woes

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Author: Jon Fautley
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
CC: stephen.davies
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] System Upgrade Woes

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:34:21 +0000
Stephen Davies <stephen.davies@???> wrote:

> So, if you are tempted to upgrade an existing system or build a new
> one from bits, watch out. You might encounter the issues I have had
> here. The New Motherboard was a Gigabyte one. I have never
> encountered this problem with other boards from this manufacturer
> before. It seems that its all down to how the SATA/IDE emulation is
> handled in the bios and the revision of the SATA Driver (libata) in
> the O/S used.


Are you running with the SATA controller set to "Compatibility" mode?
I've seen these problems with misconfigured BIOS settings. The fact
that the device names jumped from hdX to sdX indicates that there's
possibly something dodgy there.

Cheers,

/j
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