Re: Manually enabling a PCI-X card

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

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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