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Topic: ST3250410AS Detection ON ASUS A8V-X AMI BIOS 7XX

Greetings. Any version of gparted-livecd after 0.3.4-11 fails detection of the drive. Any version before it fails detection of my video card. I'm just glad something can see it (and I can see it on the screen). Can anyone tell me what kind of procedure I would use to boot a newer version by adding a driver from floppy or usb? I have not found a knoppix version that both sees my disk and likes my nv video. But, that is a discussion for another forum. My hard disk is ok. But I want to load up a new distribution without losing failsafe fallback of live-cd boots (ignoring disaster recovery planning invites catastrophe) . I'll guess something changed in the kernel to make the disk invisible. Error is "failed to identify I/O error errmask 0x04".

I'm funning centos 5.4 of the ST3250410AS. It seems to work ok but newer kernels dont seem to like the A8V-X sata controller with the ST3250410AS. I'm not sure the new kernels like the A8V-X sata controller with anything at all.

Long, long ago (redhat 6.x), I remember loading drivers before boot. Do the newer kernels still support this? Does GPARTED support this? Would I need to remaster a live-cd to accomplish this? Thanks. neutral

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Peter

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Re: ST3250410AS Detection ON ASUS A8V-X AMI BIOS 7XX

If you wish to try creating your own version of GParted Live, see Create GParted Live from Scratch for more information.

You also might try System Rescue CD which also contains GParted.

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Re: ST3250410AS Detection ON ASUS A8V-X AMI BIOS 7XX

gedakc wrote:

If you wish to try creating your own version of GParted Live, see Create GParted Live from Scratch for more information.

You also might try System Rescue CD which also contains GParted.

Current "System Rescue CD" could not detect disk either. GParted LiveCD gave the best diagnostic of anything I tried.

I ordered
   [ SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card (Silicon Image SIL3132) ]
from
   [ http://www.amazon.com/Serial-PCI-Expres … B001TIXH0C ]

If that works, I'll be good. If not, I'll need to see "Call the Kernel" $18.00 is a cheap bet.

I'll let you know what happens.

BTW: Seagate Seatools:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?l … 04090aRCRD

Works fine. I suspect the mother board is an outlier from newer kernel development. Socket 939 does not support hypervisors. Maybe thatz why the testers left it out of consideration.

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Re: ST3250410AS Detection ON ASUS A8V-X AMI BIOS 7XX

namrokretep wrote:

[ SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card (Silicon Image SIL3132) ]

System RescueCD chokes on A8V-X  motherboard SDA controller too. The SIL3132 PCI-Express CARD (see earlier link) solved my detection problem. The latest GParted CD image can detect the disks plugged into this card. That suggests that "ASUS A8V-X AMI BIOS 7XX" was the outlier.

Maybe someone else can benefit from this posting. cool

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Re: ST3250410AS Detection ON ASUS A8V-X AMI BIOS 7XX

Thanks namrokretep for sharing how you worked around this problem.  smile