[Xen-users] SATA on Foxconn P4M9007MB-8RS2H motherboard

[Dominic Mason <dominic@xxxxxxxxxx>]

To those of you who may be interested, to get SATA drives to work on
this motherboard with Xen 3.3.1 (compiled from source) you need to set
SATA to RAID mode in the BIOS, not the default IDE mode.

So I can only assume that the 2.6.18.8 kernel has a problem with the VIA
SATA in IDE mode, and can't recognise it, even though the host OS
(Ubuntu 8.04LTS, in my case) has no problems with it.

After setting the BIOS lspci gives me this:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host
Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host
Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host
Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host
Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host
Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 I/O APIC
Interrupt Controller
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Security
Device
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host
Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 PCI to PCI
Bridge Controller (rev 80)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 PCI to PCI
Bridge Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port
Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK
Controller
00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] (rev 01)
04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)


Might be a pointer to other motherboards with VIA SATA.

-- 
Dominic Mason <dominic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Opus VL

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