SATA detection

[Tony Alfrey]

Vu Pham wrote:
> 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 :)

Yes, that would work.




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