Compiling sata_sil.c

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
>> Still on my quest to get a SATA card working. It uses the sata_sil module.
>>
>> How hard would it be to download the latest version of sata_sil.c from
>> kernel 2.6.19 and compile it against 2.6.17? Is there a written
>> procedure somewhere? Or is it too easy to need one?
>>
>> This says it went from v0.9 to v2.0 at 2.6.18. I'm at v0.9.
>>
>>   http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/18/drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c
> 
> Hard to say, but I suppose its worth a try.  Sometimes its as easy as 
> dropping in the newer version and building.  Other times there will be API 
> changes which will result in breakage.
> 
> What problem are you trying to solve?

Trying to get the Syba SATA card to recognize my hard drives.
And it looks like the sata_sil driver underwent a lot of changes from 
2.6.17 to 2.6.19 or .20.

I'm downloading alpha "Feisty" since it has 2.6.20 to try it live. Also 
Knoppix has 2.6.19 to try.

The current sata_sil module seems to be working with the card just fine. 
All looks well. But it can't seem to realize it has drives attached to 
it. Also in /proc/scsi/sata_sil I found a note about "this version 0.9 
doesn't support proc-fs" and since the current version is 2.0 I thought 
it worth a try.

Otherwise I'm out of ideas on how to make it work.

Thanks,
Michael