I'm running SuSE 10.1 (2.6.16 kernel) both 32 and 64 bit flavors.

I have a Silicon Image 3112 pci 2 Sata card to which I have attached a sata cd-rom (converter from ata to sata with an adaptor). This works fine under windoz so I know the hardware setup is correct.

I've learned atapi support for sata is included in kernels 2.6.15 and newer but
my distro does not detect my cd-rom. What should I check for?

lspci:

...
00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:04.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
01:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7800 GT (rev a1)
...

dmesg:

...
sata_sil 0000:01:04.0: version 0.9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 19
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:04.0[A] -> Link [LNK1] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 217
ata5: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8838080 ctl 0xF883808A bmdma 0xF8838000 irq 217
ata6: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88380C0 ctl 0xF88380CA bmdma 0xF8838008 irq 217
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
scsi4 : sata_sil
ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113)
ata6: dev 0 cfg 00:8580 49:0b00 82:0000 83:0000 84:0000 85:0000 86:0000 87:0000 88:0007 93:0000
ata6: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0x40000, handle=0x00000000
ata6: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0x40000, handle=0x00000000
scsi5 : sata_sil
ata6: command 0xa0 timeout, stat 0x78 host_stat 0x1
ata6 is slow to respond, please be patient
ata6 failed to respond (30 secs)
...

Thanks

vyav

You did place a cd in the drive and verify that suse doesnt load it after you put something in? Suse doesnt show you a mount point/directory for a cd usless you are using the drive at the time.

Otherwise. Look in the /dev folder. You should have things like /dev/sda??? and /dev/hda?
sda's are sata, hda's are ide. If you can hdparm /dev/sda1 and so forth for each number, and they work, it's finding your cd drive

Yes, CD or not, nothing is appearing.

1. I checked with k3b and it does not appear as one of the options for device
2. using Yast, I check cd-rom devices and it is not listed, I look under pci devices and the 3112 controller is there but no attached devices
3. I look under /dev/sd? (since it does appear as scsi) and nothing.
4. under /dev there are links from cdrecorder and dvdrecorder for my other devices but nothing
similar for this device.

Is there any particular test/check I can run to detect if it is seen?

Thanks,

vyav