opensuse 13.1 and VT6421 IDE/SATA Controller

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Installed VT6421 IDE/SATA Controller:

hofkirchen:~ # lspci -v -s 03:07.0
03:07.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE/SATA Controller (rev 50)
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE/SATA Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at cf00 [size=16]
        I/O ports at ce00 [size=16]
        I/O ports at cd00 [size=16]
        I/O ports at cc00 [size=16]
        I/O ports at cb00 [size=32]
        I/O ports at c600 [size=256]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fdb00000 [disabled] [size=64]
        Capabilities: [e0] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: sata_via
        Kernel modules: sata_via

hofkirchen:~ #

There is a disk attached to the adapter, but it does not show up in /dev/disk. Any idea?[/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size]

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Hi
Power to the SATA device dead, SATA cable faulty or disconnected, drive is dead…

Can you connect to another SATA port, is the device visible in the system BIOS?[/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size]

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How big and how new and what type is the connected HD? That VIA is most likely v1.0 SATA, which may be incompatible with some newer or >2TB devices without a firmware reconfiguration or jumper on adapter and/or disk. The HD if newer spec than v1.0 might reject use of an old v1.0 cable.

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Checked all of these and did not succeed. Removed the drive and attached another one. The new drive showed up immediately as /dev/sdc. Checked again the first one and found it to be configured as slave. :frowning:

Now I have what I wanted to do since years:

karl@hofkirchen:~> ll -h /home/ST380020.iso /home/ST380021.iso /home/SAMSUNG-SP2014N.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187G  1. Nov 23:50 /home/SAMSUNG-SP2014N.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  75G  2. Nov 07:42 /home/ST380020.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  75G  1. Nov 22:32 /home/ST380021.iso
karl@hofkirchen:~>