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Adding storage to Compaq Evo

Drive: WD320GB Sata
Card: Adaptec Host SATA Controller 1205SA with Silicon Image 3112A
OS: Fedora Core 4

I failed at getting this card to work in the Sun Blade 100.
Adding it to the Compaq Evo was lil bothersome.
Had to remove the floppy drive and reroute some of the cabling as
the Evo is cramp for space.

The following output is from /var/log/messages after adding the new hardware

scoobay kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
scoobay kernel: SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
scoobay kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
scoobay kernel:  sda: sda1
scoobay kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8860080 ctl 0xF886008A bmdma 0xF8860000 irq 11
scoobay kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88600C0 ctl 0xF88600CA bmdma 0xF8860008 irq 11
scoobay kernel: ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 625142448 sectors: lba48
scoobay kernel: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scoobay kernel: scsi0 : sata_sil
scoobay kernel: ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scoobay kernel: scsi1 : sata_sil
scoobay kernel:   Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD3200JD-00K  Rev: 08.0
scoobay kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05

Create a journaling filesystem

# mkfs.ext3 -v /dev/sda1
mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
39075840 inodes, 78142160 blocks
3907108 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=79691776
2385 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
        4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616

Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

Mount the filesystem

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/share

#  df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      107G  7.6G   94G   8% /
/dev/hda1              99M   25M   70M  26% /boot
/dev/shm              506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             294G  193M  279G   1% /mnt/share

Thats it the drive will be accessible from windows via samba
and from solaris via nfs and smbclient