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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:48:08PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: > Hugo Mills wrote: > > > I've just taken delivery of a shiny new Adaptec 1210SA Serial-ATA > >adapter and a 120Gb Seagate Barracuda native SATA drive. Problem is, > >the kernel driver doesn't seem to notice this device on boot -- > >nothing at all appears relating to this device in the boot messages. > >Can you help me? > > > > (The card is configured in its on-board BIOS with a single disk as > >JBOD). > > The card is a serial ata controller with what adaptec refers to as > "hostraid". (Meaning the raid is done in the driver.) There are binary > drivers for it on adptec's site, but no open source drivers. The binary > drivers are fairly good, but they are binary drivers. (Which brings the > headaches that binary drivers entail.) I'm only after the JBOD function of the card, not the RAID bits. I just couldn't find _any_ other SiI3112 SATA card on the market in this country. I don't run Red Hat or SuSE, and particularly not their kernels -- (I normally run Alan's kernels). Does this mean that I've bought a pig in a poke? Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 1C335860 from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Great oxymorons of the world, no. 2: Common Sense --- [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ||||||||||||
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