Plextor 716SA on the nForce3 Ultra chipset.

[leech]

Ok, so I just bought a nice shiny new Plextor 716SA drive and now for the life of me, I can't get it to work in linux. It works fine in windows (watched a DVD on it anyway..)

I've set it up so that the 'sata_nv' module loads, and it says it finds a device, but it doesn't actually set that device up.

I have an MSI K8n Neo2 Platinum motherboard. I'm running kernel 2.6.10 in Ubuntu. The dmesg output looks like this.

libata version 1.10 loaded.
sata_nv version 0.5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSI] enabled at IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, high) -> IRQ 23
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:09.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9E0 ctl 0xBE2 bmdma 0xE000 irq 23
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xB62 bmdma 0xE008 irq 23
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:0000 83:0000 84:0000 85:0000 86:0000 87:0000 88:101f
ata1: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/66
nv_sata: Primary device added
nv_sata: Primary device removed
nv_sata: Secondary device removed
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/66
scsi1 : sata_nv
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi2 : sata_nv


scsi0 is actually my Adaptec controller (since have two scsi hard drives and a scsi CDR/W drive in my system.) It says all at once that the primary device is added, then removed, but then it says ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/66. But I can't find any device that would pertain to that drive within /dev. Has anyone been able to get this drive to work in a linux system yet? I've been looking all over the net for either a solution to this drive, or the slightly older 712SA drive by plextor. And while I've come up with a few pages, I haven't found any solutions.

Leech

[K6-III]

Try posting at www.ubuntuforums.org

Your luck may be better there.

[leech]

Well, I did post over there... but I posted the FIX! I managed to find it by googling a bit deeper.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=11361

There is the fix, in case anyone needs it.

Leech

[K6-III]

Cool stuff!