Getting SATA working

[Michael Hipp]

More info:

# lspci
0000:02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)

# lshw
*-storage
     description: RAID bus controller
     product: SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller
     vendor: Silicon Image, Inc.
     physical id: 4
     bus info: pci at 02:04.0
     logical name: scsi1
     logical name: scsi2
     logical name: scsi3
     logical name: scsi4
     version: 02
     width: 32 bits
     clock: 66MHz
     capabilities: storage bus_master cap_list scsi-host
     configuration: driver=sata_sil
     resources: ioport:b400-b407 ioport:b000-b003
       ioport:ac00-ac07 ioport:a800-a803 ioport:a400-a40f
       iomemory:dfeef800-dfeefbff irq:177

Really looks like this ought to be working.

Michael

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.