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Old 07-23-2005, 03:32 AM   #1
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Question SATA card found but no hard disk


Hi all,

I've just stuck a new hdd into my pc, and since I've run out of ide slots I thought I'd add a SATA drive. I've put a 2 port PCI controller in with one drive attached. lspci shows the controller card fine but I can't see the hard disk
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge) (rev 25)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:0a.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 40)
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)
fdisk -l only shows my 2 previous hard disks

any help would be greatly appreciated
 
Old 07-23-2005, 03:42 AM   #2
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Which kernel are you using? Does it have SATA support compiled in?
 
Old 07-23-2005, 03:51 AM   #3
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I *think* I'm using bare.i
 
Old 07-23-2005, 03:53 AM   #4
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The fact that lspci shows device doesn't mean necessary you have the
driver installed for this device. lspci relies on a device names database
 
Old 07-23-2005, 04:02 AM   #5
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I'm pretty sure it showed up in dmesg too (but I can't check as its full of cack now) any other way of finding out?
 
Old 07-23-2005, 04:05 AM   #6
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Code:
most /var/log/dmesg
 
Old 07-23-2005, 04:08 AM   #7
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I'm pretty sure you need to use another kernel. IIRC there's a sata kernel on disk 1. Make sure you install it IN PARALLEL and not instead of your actual kernel, just in case. Add it to lilo and try...
 
Old 07-23-2005, 04:11 AM   #8
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The only stuff i can find is
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md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 2597.600 MB/sec
32regs : 1740.000 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 1565.200 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 4241.200 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 5418.800 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1565.200 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
I guess this means I don't have SATA support in the kernel?
 
Old 07-23-2005, 04:25 AM   #9
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You need kernel support for your sata controler
(SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller)

Maybe try modprobe sata_sil, then run dmesg to see how it goes

Last edited by keefaz; 07-23-2005 at 04:26 AM.
 
Old 07-23-2005, 04:28 AM   #10
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modprobe failed, I can't find a SATA kernel on the disc - guess its time to roll the sleeves up and do my own again
 
Old 07-23-2005, 04:30 AM   #11
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modprobe sata_sil failed ?

You run kernel 2.4.31 don't you ? (uname -r)
 
Old 07-23-2005, 04:40 AM   #12
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2.4.29
 
Old 07-23-2005, 04:50 AM   #13
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The modprobe error was module not found ?
 
Old 07-23-2005, 04:54 AM   #14
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very odd, just did the same again and it's loaded the module fine

I can now see the disk ok

how do I ensure the module is always loaded on boot? (is it /etc/modprobe.conf)
 
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No, add a line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
or chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug
 
  


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