SATA detection

[Vu Pham]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:10 -0800, 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 you can use an IDE drive which will solve all the problems :)

Vu