can't mount SATA hard disk -special device /dev/sda0 does no

[transistortoaster]

Hello,
I have a HD install of knoppix and I can't mount a serial ATA (SATA) hard disk. I created an extra /mnt/sda0 directory and
tried mount /dev/sda0 /mnt/sda0 and received the
"special device /dev/sda0 does not exist"
error message. Now, is it supposed to be a sd0 or sd1? I only have one SATA hard disk and many parallel ATA ones that correctly mount.

I read some posts about some SATA BIOS options over at:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=47132 . What are they?

Also, how do I get knoppix to tell me the kernel version?

Ideas please?
Frank

[transistortoaster]

Also, what is /dev/sr1 supposed to be? It is giving me a CD-ROM drive on a parallel ATA which is controlled by an extra add on PCI card IDE controller.

[transistortoaster]

I include my lspci -v ouput:



00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-8KNXP motherboard (875P)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: f8000000-f9ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-8IPE1000/8KNXP motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 motherboard (865PE)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at b000 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 motherboard (865PE)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at b400 [size=32]

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 motherboard (865PE)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at b800 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 motherboard (865PE)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00007000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: fa000000-fbffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 50000000-500fffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 motherboard (865PE)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at f000 [size=16]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 motherboard (865PE)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 1400 [size=32]

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-8IPE1000/8KNXP motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=64]
Memory at fc001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at fc002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 8500
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Memory at f9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at f8000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

02:01.0 Serial controller: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava DSerial-PCI Port A (prog-if 02 [16550])
Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 23
I/O ports at 7000 [size=8]

02:01.1 Serial controller: Lava Computer mfg Inc Lava DSerial-PCI Port B (prog-if 02 [16550])
Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 23
I/O ports at 7400 [size=8]

02:02.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. Winic W-680 (Silicon Image 680 based)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 7800 [size=8]
I/O ports at 7c00 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8000 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8400 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8800 [size=16]
Memory at fb006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 50000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

02:03.0 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: 3Com Corp, Modem Division Unknown device 00d7
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 8c00 [size=8]
Capabilities: <access denied>

02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 3013
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
Memory at fb004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>

[kaspare]

Try with cat /proc/partitions to see how knoppix found your sata disk, maybe sd0 isn't right.

Ciao

Max

[hat_monkey]

i'd be giving /dev/hdX a whirl instead of sdX.

[transistortoaster]

Thanks for your replies!

The cat /proc/partitions gave me /dev/hdd, /dev/jhdd1 /dev/hdd2 /dev/hdd3 /dev/hdd5. There is no mention of sd.. at all.

The hdd1 through 5 looks like the parallel ATA hard disk. It is supposed to have one dos parition, one ext3, one linux swap, so that is fine. The SATA hard disk is supposed to have one DOS and one ext3. My home directory is supposed to be mounted on the SATA. The size of /dev/hdd looks correct for the DOS and ext3, which were made the same size. If I try to mount it, it says busy or already mounted. So, I still have a DOS partition that I can't access.

Ideas?

[cbagger01]

Thanks for your replies!

The cat /proc/partitions gave me /dev/hdd, /dev/jhdd1 /dev/hdd2 /dev/hdd3 /dev/hdd5. There is no mention of sd.. at all.

The hdd1 through 5 looks like the parallel ATA hard disk. It is supposed to have one dos parition, one ext3, one linux swap, so that is fine. The SATA hard disk is supposed to have one DOS and one ext3. My home directory is supposed to be mounted on the SATA. The size of /dev/hdd looks correct for the DOS and ext3, which were made the same size. If I try to mount it, it says busy or already mounted. So, I still have a DOS partition that I can't access.

Ideas?

There are known problems with the sata driver for the kernel that was used in knoppix 5.1.1 and Intel SATA controllers. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

If you are using 5.1.1, there are solutions:

1) Upgrade the kernel version on your hard drive installation via APT/Synaptic/Kpackage, or compile a new kernel from source.
2) Upgrade to 5.3.1 or downgrade to 5.0.1
3) Try "Legacy OS install mode" or whatever it is called in your BIOS to have your SATA controller pretend to be a PATA controller.
4) Keep rebooting your computer until the drive appears. It might show up every 3rd o 4th boot.

Good Luck.

[Condor]

To list your devices try:


cat /etc/fstab<ENTER>

You should recieve a list similar to this:

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ cat /etc/fstab
/proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/fd0 auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hda /media/hda auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppi x 0 0 ***This is my ntfs drive***

Hope this helps,
Condor