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Thread ID: 65374	2006-01-16 00:16:00	Weird SATA Problem	rixth (9629)	Press F1

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421597	2006-01-16 00:16:00	I have a MSI motherboard, one of those Delta ones that has the VIA KT600 northbirdge and VIA8327 southbridge. It has two SATA connectors, I do not have any expansion cards. When I boot up, it displays the SATA drives connected, it shows sometihng like: Ch0_master: no device Ch0_slave: WDC blah blah (my harddrive) Ch1_master: no device Ch1_slave: no device Well, Linux doesn't like this one bit and refuses to boot. I have reset my BIOS (using the jumper) and it still does that. I thought SATA didn't have master/slave. I do not have a RAID configuration. It only just started doing this, it used to only be ch1 master and ch0 master. What is going on?	rixth (9629)
421598	2006-01-16 00:36:00	It is the equivalent of master and slave. Shouldn't matter but if Linux is picky chnage the cable to your first sata connector on the MB. It will be listed in the manual and its usually written on the board too which is which.	pctek (84)
421599	2006-01-16 00:40:00	It does matter. No matter which connector I plug it into, it shows up as the slave one. I get through to grub, hit boot, then it complains it can't do master/slave whatnot. It gives a big ugly hex error then drops me back to busybox. This is Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary) dist upgrade'd to 5.10 (Breezy)	rixth (9629)
421600	2006-01-16 05:38:00	It does matter. No matter which connector I plug it into, it shows up as the slave one. I get through to grub, hit boot, then it complains it can't do master/slave whatnot. It gives a big ugly hex error then drops me back to busybox. This is Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary) dist upgrade'd to 5.10 (Breezy) In the BIOS you should be able to map a SATA drive to the IDE so that the BIOS sees the SATA as an IDE. Map it to the master and you should be right. SATA has no such thing as Master/Slave.	Big John (551)
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