No drives detected with TX4000

Mark Kirkwood markir at paradise.net.nz
Fri Apr 7 01:39:20 UTC 2006


Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> I swapped out a TX2000 for a TX4000 today, and naively thought that I'd 
> just be able to plug in the new card and reboot. Unfortunately, it does 
> not detect the 4 drives (Maxtor 6E040L0).
> 
> Booting off the 6.0R install cd shows the card detected ok, and 6 ATA 
> channels - 2 on-board + 4 on-card. Running 'atacontrol list' from a 
> fixit shell lists the 4 channels with no drives attached.
> 
> Is there anything special that needed for the TX4000, compared to the 
> TX2000?
> 

A slight update on this, I tried out a gentoo installation - it sees the 
drives as scsi, whereas it saw the same ones as ata when attached to a 
TX2000 - so I'm wondering if these newer TX4000's have had a firmware 
change (as I *know* there are folks one this list that run the 4's....)

Cheers

Mark


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