SATA problem

[William Park]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> To: GTALUG <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
> Sent: Mon, March 21, 2011 9:30:36 PM
> Subject: [TLUG]: SATA problem
> 
> I was wanting to add a couple extra drives to one of my systems,  and
> apparently picked up the wrong sort of SATA controller.  Docs out  on
> the "interweb" are a bit less up to date than seems useful.
> 
> I  grabbed a Bytecc generic card:
> <http://canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=19_252_254&item_id=021549>
> 
> This  is using a VIA 6421 chipset, which seems supported as part of the
> "sata_via"  driver, but it doesn't recognize my drives.  That seems
> vaguely  consistent with this:
> <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1600508>
> 
> Is there some  particular cheap-ish controller I ought to go looking for?
> 
> FYI, here's  current kernel info...
> wolfe:~# uname -a
> Linux wolfe 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP  Mon Dec 7 05:21:45 UTC 2009 x86_64 
GNU/Linux
> Perhaps I need to update to a  rather newer kernel...

I have 
<http://canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=19_252_254&item_id=029206> 
which is 2 items down from what you bought.  It's PCI-Ex1 Silicon Image 3132, 
and I have no problem with it under Linux.  But, Windows 7 doesn't recognize it, 
so I have to load its driver from USB key.

Yours is PCI.  Probably, no developer has such card, so no drivers. :-)  Maybe 
it's just matter of adding vendor/device ID to the source and re-compile.  Try 
another card with Silicon Image chipset.
-- 
William



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