Hi everyone, While trying to follow the instructions at http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_Freecom_FSG-3, I couldn't see my internal disk after booting from pendrive. (it is the original 500GB disk that came with the FSG, connection is IDE) fdisk -l, /proc/scsi, dmesg, ... nowhere could I see a trace of the disk. After doing recovery and using the FSG firmware (4.3.8 beta) I discarded a hardware failure. The disk is seen again. The relevant lines from dmesg are: <7>libata version 2.00 loaded. <7>sata_via 0000:00:0c.0: version 2.0 <4>PCI: enabling device 0000:00:0c.0 (0000 -> 0001) <6>sata_via 0000:00:0c.0: routed to hard irq line 6 <6>ata1: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1420 ctl 0x142A bmdma 0x1400 irq 22 <6>ata2: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1440 ctl 0x144A bmdma 0x1410 irq 22 <6>ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1430 ctl 0x143A bmdma 0x1408 irq 22 <6>scsi0 : sata_via <4>ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x1427 <6>scsi1 : sata_via <6>ata2.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 <6>ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 0 <6>ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 <6>scsi2 : sata_via <4>ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x1437 <5> Vendor: ATA Model: Hitachi HDT72505 Rev: V56O <5> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 <5>SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) <5>sda: Write Protect is off <7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 <5>SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back <5>SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) <5>sda: Write Protect is off <7>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 <5>SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back <6> sda: sda1 sda2 <5>sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda From /proc/config.gz (for the FSG original firmware), the part about the disk is: # # ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support # # CONFIG_IDE is not set # # SCSI device support # # CONFIG_RAID_ATTRS is not set CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y # # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM) # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR is not set # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SCH is not set # # SCSI low-level drivers # (JPC comment, all of them disabled except the following ones) CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y So my guess is that maybe some module/configuration is missing in the kernel provided with fsg-3-deploy-stick.tar.bz2. Could anyone who has managed to install Debian on the hard disk please post here the results of fdisk -l, dmesg, ... ? Thanks in advance, Juan |