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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] install failing to detect SATA disk
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:49:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <283a0420c990c1d3a5a2eed34eafbae9@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPCGcM-fete06k2wQk6x2e+ZLoihRK+KUJtFMMAtfWecBB6Wzw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat Feb 16 01:41:26 EST 2013, dchawla@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm trying to install Plan9 on my Thinkpad T410. I could boot using the
> latest Plan9.iso image and the install process gets to the diskpart step
> (the step after the configfs step) and it complains about not seeing any
> hard disks.
>
> I have Linux installed in one of the partitions and it shows the following
> sata controller
>
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series
> Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 06)
>
> I'm new to Plan 9. Any suggestions on how to debug this issue?
>
> I see two modes for SATA - AHCI and Compatibility. The above behavior is
> when SATA is in the AHCI mode. In the Compatibility mode, the install fails
> earlier - boots from CD, but can't access it after that.

could you send the output of
	grep . /dev/sd*/ctl

thanks!

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-16  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-16  6:40 Deepak Chawla
2013-02-16  6:49 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-02-16  6:59   ` Deepak Chawla
2013-02-16  7:05     ` erik quanstrom
2013-02-16  8:13       ` Deepak Chawla
2013-02-16  8:56         ` Deepak Chawla
2013-02-16 15:11           ` erik quanstrom
2013-02-18  9:07             ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-02-18 15:57               ` Deepak Chawla
2013-02-18 16:03                 ` erik quanstrom

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