OK, maybe I am just braindead today. But I added a brand new SATA drive to my box. It does not appear to be known to linux as a device and I have no idea what I missed or should be looking at.

I am not new to linux, but I am to SATA. So far it feels like the early days with UDMA drives and controllers

So what am I missing and what do I need to do to make this drive work? Once I can make a filesystem on it I will move stuff around for mythtv but I am not trying to install or boot to the drive.

Maybe I am missing something on the harware level?

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root@mythtv1:~ # grep [hs]d[abcdefgh][:1234567] /var/log/dmesg
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa800-0xa807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa808-0xa80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD800JB-00JJA0, ATA DISK drive
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4

We'll need more hardware details... Does your BIOS recognize the new drive and is it enabled there?

Also try:

I just noticed that you're running an older version. Any reason not to upgrade to R5A16? It has a more recent kernel wich may help with the SATA detection.

I don't even think R4V5 has SATA support in the kernel. From what I recall, getting it to compile was a pain so I never included it... You really should move to R5.

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Well there is definately support for Silicon Image SATA adapters in the 2.4.25-chw kernel included with R4V5. I added a SATA disk temporarily once to my R4V5 system and it was recognised instantly as /dev/sda. I guess you use a different controller. Googling for the controller name should give you a hint of the module name required or do a make oldconfig in the kernel source tree and then a make menuconfig to select new options in the kernel starting with the current options.

Unfortunately voodooatl failed to provide us with MoBo info so we can't look it up for him, and we're stuck playing "Doctor it hurts!"