Getting SATA working

[Michael Hipp]

This is another 'SOLVED' SATA issue. Llama was right that the card 
wasn't POSTing. The magic fix was to move it to a different PCI slot. 
Now it POSTs and Linux sees the disks with no problem. I think it may 
have been getting lost behind a SCSI controller that was earlier in the 
PCI slots.

Like Tony, I'm now sold on SYBA SATA cards.

Michael



Michael Hipp wrote:
> I'm trying to add SATA to one of my servers with a Syba card: 
> http://www.syba.com/product/43/02/05/index.html
> 
> The card should use the sata_sil module according to this: 
> http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#sii311x
> 
> $ lsmod | grep sil
> sata_sil               10500  0
> libata                 84240  1 sata_sil
> 
> dmesg finds this:
> [42949381.480000] libata version 1.20 loaded.
> [42949381.480000] sata_sil 0000:02:04.0: version 0.9
> [42949381.490000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, 
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [42949381.490000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF083C880 ctl 0xF083C88A 
> bmdma 0xF083C800 irq 177
> [42949381.490000] ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF083C8C0 ctl 0xF083C8CA 
> bmdma 0xF083C808 irq 177
> [42949381.490000] ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF083CA80 ctl 0xF083CA8A 
> bmdma 0xF083CA00 irq 177
> [42949381.490000] ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF083CAC0 ctl 0xF083CACA 
> bmdma 0xF083CA08 irq 177
> [42949381.700000] ata1: no device found (phy stat ffffffff)
> [42949381.700000] scsi1 : sata_sil
> [42949381.910000] ata2: no device found (phy stat ffffffff)
> [42949381.910000] scsi2 : sata_sil
> [42949382.120000] ata3: no device found (phy stat ffffffff)
> [42949382.120000] scsi3 : sata_sil
> [42949382.330000] ata4: no device found (phy stat ffffffff)
> [42949382.330000] scsi4 : sata_sil
> 
> Google didn't turn up anything helpful (other than it *should* work). 
> There's nothing in /proc/partitions to indicate the existence of the two 
> disks I have connected to the SATA card. But if I try to fdisk any of 
> them they're not there.
> 
> Any ideas on how to troubleshoot / fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
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