[debian-non-standard] Problems installing debian on FSG-3 (boots from flash, but cannot see internal disk)

juan--nsd82 at lavera.dnsalias.net juan--nsd82 at lavera.dnsalias.net
Fri Jan 25 16:33:36 CET 2008


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






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