Getting SATA working

[Michael Hipp]

Not sure, I wasn't standing in front of the box at the instant it flashed by. 
And I'm remote from it right now. Any way to tell this while running?

Thanks,
Michael


Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.