I've got a Silicon Image 3512-based Cardbus SATA card, to which I'm
attaching some Seagate 7200.8 drives. They show up under Windows,
but, despite using the latest patches to libata for sata_sil, although
the card is seen and sata_sil is loaded (dmesg shows it as being
recognized), the attached drives are never seen.

I've seen elsewhere that people have gotten 3512-based PCI cards
to work allright, but perhaps in this Cardbus form they don't work
properly.

Has anyone used one of these beasties and gotten it to work with Slack 10.1?

From what I can tell, going to a 2.6 kernel might solve the problem.
Any luck there?

- Tim

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On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:39:17 GMT, SPAMBLOCKER@BLOCKEDTOAVOIDSPAM.com (Spammay Blockay) wrote:
>
>I've seen elsewhere that people have gotten 3512-based PCI cards
>to work allright, but perhaps in this Cardbus form they don't work
>properly.

2.4.32-pre3 dated 2005-08-08 has backport of 2.6 latest SATA drivers,
and -pre3 seems safe[0] As far as CardBus goes it looks like PCI
inside the machine, so perhaps not an issue. I don't have the beastie.

[0] 2.4 series got a security update this weekend, and 2.4.32-pre3
was cited as safe alternative to the -hfX hotfix series from:
http://linux.exosec.net/kernel/2.4-hf/

Cheers,
Grant.

you might want to try using the sata.i kernel

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:22:30 -0700, Mr. Boy wrote:

> you might want to try using the sata.i kernel

And you might want to learn how to quote, so people might know what you're
referring to. Wouldn't hurt to use a real newsreader, too.

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