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Installing to a PCIE sata card

I have an ASUS P5Q deluxe from an old gaming computer that I'm converting to a server. Unfortunately, while their silly onboard fake RAID thing(drive xpert) worked fine in Windows, the drives are not ...
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ATA_PIIX Driver Source Code

Is it possible to find the source code for the ATA_PIIX Driver outside the linux kernel? I have to install an older version of Linux (SuSE 10) on a brand new laptop and its failing to see the drive. ...
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Find out that driver is installed properly

I have got a pci sata controller on my machine. I am not sure that the driver is installed properly. The lspci -v output of the card is: 00:09.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 ...
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How to map ataX.0 identifiers in kern.log error messages to actual /dev/sdY devices?

Consider following kern.log snippet: ata4.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED ata4.00: cmd 61/00:78:40:1e:6c/04:00:f0:00:00/40 tag 15 ncq 524288 out res ...
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Are any SCSI modules needed in initrd if only SATA and IDE disks are used?

I am creating a cloning script to automate a minimalistic installation of Cent OS 5.5 on about 100 workstations of various hardware and age (2-10 years). The workstations are all either IDE or SATA. ...
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Do I need pata_atiixp or ata_generic kernel modules on a SATA only system?

I don't have any IDE drives and my only SATA hard drive is running in AHCI mode, but my initrd image loads the pata_atiixp module. Is it safe to disable this module? And what about the ata_generic ...
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Why do my SATA devices show up under /proc/scsi/scsi?

I have 3 SATA devices on my system. They show up under /proc/scsi/scsi, although these are not SCSI devices. Why do my SATA devices show up under the SCSI directory? $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached ...
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Names for ATA and SATA disks in Linux

Assume that we have two disks, one master SATA and one master ATA. How will they show up in /dev?