New etch installer and SATA

[Wolf359]

I have an ASUS P5B motherboard (with a fracking JMicron controller, BIOS ROM up-to-date) with SATA set up as Compatible mode (Slackware, openSuSE, Fedora and Ubuntu works) and a WD 320GB SATA HDD (and an IDE one, WD 250GB).
The (graphical) etch installer is unable to see my SATA disk, only the IDE one, although I started the installer with "all-generic-ide noirqpoll" (as I did for the rest of the distributions).
Any help will be appreciated

/later edit: I was using the KDE CD for installing, if this matters.

[e1even1]

there are 3 things i would try with that board. i have dyslexia so i put them in reverse order.

3) there are 2 sata controllers on that board. the south bridge ich8 and the jmicron. shutdown and unplug and drain the power out using the front panel power switch. then try switching the sata drive to the other controller. also try different sata ports (4) on the ich8.

2) enter the bios and switch whichever controller is being used to AHCI instead of compatible. caveat that will p[robably whack all the data on the sata drive.

1) expertgui and look for a jmicron module or something (if that's what the sata drive is using) and try that without boot options.

[Wolf359]

Thanks, I'll try option No. 1 first.

What worries me is that I changed from Compatible to AHCI many times, none of them resulted in a data lost from the SATA drive

[e1even1]

Thanks, I'll try option No. 1 first.

What worries me is that I changed from Compatible to AHCI many times, none of them resulted in a data lost from the SATA drive

cool. i lost everything once that way, but it was an intel board with ich7r and different bios.

[Wolf359]

OMG, can't believe how lucky I was... sheeesh. Must be more careful next time.

[Wolf359]

Could no find anything related to jmicron on expert dialog

[e1even1]

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=50622#50622

there is someone who says it works, so i would now try my option 2) first without any boot options