SATA detection

[Tony Alfrey]

C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Thursday 08 March 2007 23:11, Tony Alfrey wrote:

<snip>
>>   it is called sata_sil
> 
> Tony,
> 
> I don't remember that you've ever told us what kind of SATA controller you 
> have. I just took a quick look at your MB (it's a Gigabyte GA-7VT600, isn't 
> it?) and don't see any onboard support for SATA. 

Correct

>  Are you using an add-on 
> card?

Yes, a Silicon Image card SC-SA0012-S1, which appears to have an INITIO 
INIC1620 chip.

> 
> This website may help you to resolve your problem:
> 
> http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html

Yes, I have been through this in quite some detail.  It appears that my 
Silicon Image card is too new; it does not have the same chip as is 
described on the list of drivers.  I may have to get the Promise SATA 
card which has RedHat drivers, but I need to compile the driver on the 
kernel I'm going to use.  We call this a "Catch 22".

> 
> Cheers!
> 
> cmr
> 


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