Getting SATA working

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Are the disks detected at POST?

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:

> I'm trying to add SATA to one of my servers with a Syba card:
> http://www.syba.com/product/43/02/05/index.html
>
> The card should use the sata_sil module according to this:
> http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#sii311x
>
> $ lsmod | grep sil
> sata_sil               10500  0
> libata                 84240  1 sata_sil
>
> dmesg finds this:
> [42949381.480000] libata version 1.20 loaded.
> [42949381.480000] sata_sil 0000:02:04.0: version 0.9
> [42949381.490000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [42949381.490000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF083C880 ctl 0xF083C88A
> bmdma 0xF083C800 irq 177
> [42949381.490000] ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF083C8C0 ctl 0xF083C8CA
> bmdma 0xF083C808 irq 177
> [42949381.490000] ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF083CA80 ctl 0xF083CA8A
> bmdma 0xF083CA00 irq 177
> [42949381.490000] ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF083CAC0 ctl 0xF083CACA
> bmdma 0xF083CA08 irq 177
> [42949381.700000] ata1: no device found (phy stat ffffffff)
> [42949381.700000] scsi1 : sata_sil
> [42949381.910000] ata2: no device found (phy stat ffffffff)
> [42949381.910000] scsi2 : sata_sil
> [42949382.120000] ata3: no device found (phy stat ffffffff)
> [42949382.120000] scsi3 : sata_sil
> [42949382.330000] ata4: no device found (phy stat ffffffff)
> [42949382.330000] scsi4 : sata_sil
>
> Google didn't turn up anything helpful (other than it *should* work).
> There's nothing in /proc/partitions to indicate the existence of the two
> disks I have connected to the SATA card. But if I try to fdisk any of
> them they're not there.
>
> Any ideas on how to troubleshoot / fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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