Re: Manually enabling a PCI-X card

[Brian Elder <bri.elder@gmail.com>]

Oh and sometimes the card won't even be initialized unless you have a  
device plugged into it prior to POST.
Just thought of that...

~Brian
On Jun 4, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Brian Elder wrote:

> This may sound stupid, but you are sure the card is not DOA? Also,  
> during POST, do you get any sort of BIOS from the card itself?  
> Usually those types of cards have some sort of initialization before  
> any OS loads and will show you devices that are connected to it.
> Your card may be different but just throwing that out there.
> ~Brian
>
>
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>
>> What follows may sound simple to someone (I hope). During the past  
>> few
>> iterations of Fedora & Red Hat the automated process of hardware  
>> device
>> discovery / driver installation has gotten so good that I seem to  
>> have
>> forgotten how to do it manually.
>>
>> I recently purchased a 4-port eSATA card for my SuperMicro server
>> running RHEL5. For details see
>> http://www.cooldrives.com/saii3g4espcc.html.
>>
>> Unfortunately this card isn't identified during RHEL5u3 boot-time
>> discovery. According to the above web page, this card is based on the
>> Silicon Image Sil3124 chipset. According to
>> http://www.linux-ata.org/driver-status.html there's an open-source
>> driver available called sata_sil24.ko. It's supported by RHEL5u3,  
>> so I
>> entered:
>>
>>       # insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18.128.1.10.el5/kernel/drivers/ata/ 
>> sata_sil24.ko
>>
>> It apparently loads normally:
>>
>>       # lsmod | grep sil24
>>       sata_sil24             50373  0
>>       libata                208721  2 sata_sil24,sata_nv
>>
>> I even remembered to add it to /etc/modprobe.conf:
>>
>>       alias scsi_hostadapter2 sata_sil24
>>
>> OK... I've physically found a 64-bit PCI-X slot (last one!) and
>> installed the card. I've identified its chipset, found a supported  
>> Linux
>> driver for that chipset, and installed it as a module. So far so  
>> good.
>> What's the problem? Where's the beef? When I now run:
>>
>>       # lspci -v
>>
>> there's no evidence that the card is now active even with the driver
>> installed. What step(s) have I forgotten?
>>
>> --Doc
>>
>>
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