Linux SATA problem with Abit IP35-E
Just a brief revelation to share with any readers (perhaps they stumble here through Google, or by some horrible accident :).
I’ve had an Abit IP35-E motherboard in my HTPC setup for six months now, and while a great overclocking board, stable and packed with nice features (yeah, right, this is the budget version), I haven’t been able to coerce my Debian Lenny installation copied from previous IDE hard drive, or any Linux Live-CD to properly recognize my 500GB Samsung SATA hard drive.
Because booting to Linux rebooted with USB keyboard on, and IRQ options sometimes seemed to work their magic and temporarily get me to login prompt, I figured there was some IRQ conflict at work. I searched for the fix just half a year ago with no luck, but after 5 months of complete Linux abstince (spelled that wrong, I did), I stumbled upon this:
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/812946/ (search for “Linux”)
Turns out all I needed was to swap SATA cable from SATA1 port to SATA5. Voila, now everything works great, no IRQ conflicts there (only SATA1-SATA4 ports conflict with USB controller).
Hope this helps someone!
Tags: abit, conflict, ich9, ip35-e, irq, linux, problem, sata, troubleshooting, usb
July 29th, 2008 at 3:09 am
You, sir, are a saint. I’ve had mine just over six months as well and nothing recognizes my maxtor 500G. I was just about to reload linux and was checking to see if a fix had been concocted… and here it is.
Thank You.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Thank you very much, have had the same problem for a few months now, tried all different bios settings, and right here were the answer.
Greetings from Norway(as you can see by the spelling;)!
August 30th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Unfortunately, we lose one of the main benefits to SATA technology when we do this– NCQ. Putting it in port 5 or 6 tells it to operate in PATA mode. Linux recognizes this. Some driver issues with the SATA mode though.
:(
I want Linux though so I put up with it, too.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I just want to add that if you have the IP35 Pro or IP35 Pro XE, change the SATA mode in your BIOS from IDE to ACHI. This has worked for some (see link below). This isn’t possible with the non-Pro IP35 boards though.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=698912