Comments on: Ubuntu and VIA VT6421 PCI SATA Howto

By: Lawrence Gough

Lawrence Gough — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:44:03 +0000

Thanks for the info, worked a treat on ubuntu 11.10

By: Mihail Pehlivanov

Mihail Pehlivanov — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:58:42 +0000

Hi, i’ve got the same VT6421, and i’ve got one hard drive, with two partitions, one is Windows7, second is larger the first and its 440 GB, and on the same card, SATA DVD-RW, but when i insert CD ot DVD, everything is freezin’ all gdm, and cannot go even into console with ctrl+alt+F1, can somebody help me from here?

By: valent

valent — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:32:57 +0000

@George I don’t use this card currently, but there should be no reason to stop working.

By: valent

valent — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:31:23 +0000

@Patrick go to kernel mailing list and try to find out who wrote “sata_via” kernel module and ask him if “sata_via” supports two cards at the same time.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:00:57 +0000

Hi! I have a similar problem, I have 2 vt6421 controler card and when I do lspci I see both cards but only the 2 hardrive connect to the first vt6421. The harddisk on the second 6421 is not detected. If I disconnect the first vt6421 I see the disk who was connect to the second vt6421.. any idea?

By: George

George — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:54:27 +0000

How were you able to see the disks. Was it automatic. Have you upgraded to newer versions since and still had success?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:12:46 +0000

how are you seeing the disks? Are they automatically appearing?

By: Michaël Zakrzewski

Michaël Zakrzewski — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:15:21 +0000

In windows I have only one disk.

Finally it appears that it is a fake-raid and I use dmraid and it is ok.

I juste dmraid -ay to activate partitions and after I have used mount tu mount partition.

And now with gparted I have thos : http://hfr-rehost.net/http://self/pic/e59e22c36b170830e959d819ce746aa39e4dbcab.jpeg

Thanks for your help !

By: valent

valent — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:50:49 +0000

The problem here isn’t that you didn’t give enough information. You needed to say right away that you made your RAID0 UNDER WINDOWS! You didn’t give enough information. VIA card works flawlessly and it is not the problem. You have made “dynamic disk” raid0 under windows, and I have no clue how to make that work under Linux but this link could help you – http://tinyurl.com/yl3zagd

By: Michaël Zakrzewski

Michaël Zakrzewski — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:18:28 +0000

No, I have 4 disks on my system :

sda is a 160GB disk and ubuntu is on this disk

sdb(500GB) and sdc(500GB) are on the PCI card with VT6421 chipset and on windows I have a 1TB partition in NTFS with 2*500GB in RAID0 but on ubuntu server I can’t see this 1TB partition and it is the problem

sd is an I-RAM (Gigabyte) 3GB with a NTFS partition for Windowsn XP