SATA detection

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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".

Or get a motherboard which has a SATA controller onboard, and you'd save 
hours of pain & suffering.

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