[mythtv-users] S-ATA

[Stephen Boddy]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 00:19, Martin Ravell wrote:
> I have a Silicon Image 3x12 based S-ATA card for my machine but am having
> trouble getting it recognised by my new FC5, Jarod's Guide, ATRPM's, 3 GHz
> Intel board Myth0.20 machine.
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> Phew, that was a mouthfull.
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> Has anyone successfully gotten this card to be recognised?
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> I do not seem to see it in an lspci. Does this simply mean that I am
> missing drivers?

It is irrelevant.

All PCI devices have a vendor id and device id (i.e. 105a:3d17)

All lspci does is iterate over the PCI bus and looks up the human readable 
text from known vendor/devices. (i.e. 105a:3d17 == Mass storage controller: 
Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02)) See the 
file /usr/share/pci.ids but your vendor id should be 1095 (Silicon Image, 
Inc.) and the device id of your pci device is probably not listed in the 
pci.ids file against this vendor id.

When you load a kernel module it has a list of vendor device ids for which the 
driver is applicable. If it finds one of those devices it will "bind" itself 
to that device.

For my above device the sata_promise driver is the correct one. Prior to 
kernel 2.6.16 (I think) the driver did not include the vendor device ids for 
this device (the 3d17 bit). By adding the vendor/device to the kernel source 
and rebuilding the kernel, the driver worked fine.

Your controller would likely need the sata_sil driver 
(/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c) If this driver isn't loaded, then 
try modprobe'ing it and see if you can then see attached drives with 
fdisk -l. If you still can't see the attached drives, you may be able to 
patch the kernel source and it may work. YMMV

-- 
Steve Boddy