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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: sschoen on March 29, 2009, 11:50:33 AM

Title: ata drivers missing
Post by: sschoen on March 29, 2009, 11:50:33 AM

Hi,
I started some weeks ago to use a TC 1.1 based hardisk installation on some PCs of my school as a sort of kiosk for nx clients connecting to a freenx terminal server. Harddisk install works quite well for Dell Optiplex 755 with scsi.tce.  But on a not brandnew Maxdata sata drive system the harddisk is not recognized by TC, so no installation is posssible. If one starts the GParted-CD (also with the 2.6.26 kernel) the drive is seen and it can be repartitioned etc.. Dmesg tells that the following drivers are used by the CD distro: libata.ko, ata-generic.ko and sata_sil.ko - all tree being on the GParted-CD in  /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-486/kernel/drivers/ata . An ata-directory ist missing in TC, so this means that my projekt ist stopped quite abruptly.

Did I overlook something, maybe in more actual TC versions? Is there a workaround for my problem? Are there plans to close the gap? Is there a HowTo for inserting drivers from the another distro of the same kernel version into TC?

Yours,
Stephan

Title: Re: ata drivers missing
Post by: curaga on March 29, 2009, 11:57:18 AM

There are indeed plans to add that driver in the next kernel update.

Copying modules from another distro will not work, if you are in a hurry you'd need to recompile the kernel. If not, wait a couple of weeks and see :)

Title: Re: ata drivers missing
Post by: sschoen on March 29, 2009, 12:36:02 PM

Hi curaga,

Thank you.

I *am* in a hurry , but I prefer waiting, since compiling a kernel would the first time for me.

I offer my help for testing the new feature on one of our Maxdata boxes.

Yours,
Stephan

Title: Re: ata drivers missing
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on March 29, 2009, 04:51:34 PM

I still had my build tree up, so I decided to create an extension: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=954.0
Hopefully that'll work for you (for now).

Title: Re: ata drivers missing
Post by: sschoen on March 29, 2009, 06:38:05 PM

Thank you, I'll test this in some hours.

Yours,
Stephan

Title: Re: ata drivers missing
Post by: sschoen on March 30, 2009, 11:27:40 AM

Thank you, it worked at once! Great job!

Yours,
Stephan

Title: Re: ata drivers missing
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on March 30, 2009, 10:32:25 PM

Glad it works!

Note: I've made some changes since the first revision