SATA detection

[Tony Alfrey]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>>> OK, I'm trying to install blag linux, which has an installer that
>>>>> searches for drives.  It does not find my SATA drive controller.  But
>>>>> the bios sees the controller mounted on the PCI buss and announces the
>>>>> two drives I installed.  When I set the bios up on this Gigabyte
>>>>> motherboard to select boot order, it offers me a list of possible boot
>>>>> devices.  It does not offer a "plug-in controller" like the bios on my
>>>>> intel MB, but it does offer a SCSI option.  I assume that this must be
>>>>> the same as a plug-in controller.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I cannot tell if this is a problem with the installer not knowing to
>>>>> look for a SCSI controller or if this is a bios problem.
>>>> Is the SATA controller not being detected, or is the disk attached to
>>>> it not being detected?
>>>>
>>
>> When I attempt to install the driver (I suppose this is a kernel module)
>> that I see is a very common driver for use with the SIIG boards and
>> chipsets, the installer asks me for "parameters".  What parameters might
>> those be?  What are "parameters"?
> 
> I dunno, which kernel module is this?
> 

  it is called sata_sil



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