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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