SATA connections slowing boot down...

**FuzzieBio** · 03-05-2004, 10:02 PM

My mobo had built in SATA, which read as hda7 and hda8. There are not hard drives on these connections, and it takes about a minute a piece for Linux to find that out (makes booting annoying) I cannot disable the SATA via the bios or jumpers, so is there any way I can keep the OS from trying talk the the hard drives that arent there.

Thanks.

**Markus** · 03-06-2004, 05:58 PM

hmm, are you quite sure you can't disable SATA in your BIOS?

It might be "disguised" as legacy ATA or PATA support.

Just a shot in the dark...

**FuzzieBio** · 03-09-2004, 04:24 AM

Originally Posted by Markus

hmm, are you quite sure you can't disable SATA in your BIOS?

It might be "disguised" as legacy ATA or PATA support.

Just a shot in the dark...

I'll check into it. but I dont think so. Thx for the suggestion anyways.

**FuzzieBio** · 03-17-2004, 08:08 PM

There are no options or toggles to get rid of the SATA connections. Anyone else have any suggestions to keep knoppix from looking for phantom SATA drives?

**rasferret** · 05-07-2004, 07:58 AM

I've got the same problem. There's a SiI 3112A SATA Controller on my Asus A7N8X deluxe and normally there's no drive attached to it. But sometimes I connect one or two drives to it (it has a nice hot-plug feature under Windows XP). So I don't want to deactivate the controller.

So it would be nice to tell knoppix at boottime to disable sata-support.

greets

rasferret

**Suprnova** · 05-13-2004, 02:23 PM

I have an NF7-S from Abit, which is also Nforce2.

In my bios, which shouldn't be all that different from yours, I can go to
Integrated peripherals, and then to On Chip Ide Device.

There should be an option to disable S-ATA from there.