Re: Hardware compat with Fc8

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook hp com>]

Several months ago, a Debian fellow (Hi, Tom!) and I looked at SiL
controllers - he a controller based on SiL chipset 3124, while mine
was a SIIG card based on SiL 3512 chipset.

As of his last status, 3124 was still failing using 2.6.25.4, while
my 3512 appeared to be working OK with our 2.6.24.4 kernel.

Note that I have not been using it at all since then, and only did
some very minor testing, so of course, YMMV...

Good luck.

--Jay++

bob smith wrote:
> Thanks to Bert and Steven -
> I will see if I can find a promise or one of the other sata cards and test this.
> 
> modprobe -l | grep sata
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_qstor.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_vsc.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_via.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sis.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_nv.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sil.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_uli.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_promise.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sx4.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_mv.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_svw.ko
> 
> 
> Steven Moix wrote:
> 
> I can't give you a definitive answer, but we know some things:
> 
> - You can't boot from a SATA card because of the SRM, you'll always need
> a disk to contain the boot files.
> - A card which has kernel drivers should work, have a look
> in /lib/modules/yourkernelversion/kernel/drivers/ata for compiled
> drivers. You can also look at the /boot/config-yourkernel file under the
> "SCSI Transports" section for compiled drivers. m means that they are
> compild as modules, the .ko files.
> 
> So let us know when you have tried :)
> 
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 09:53 -0400, bob smith wrote:
> 
> 
> I would like to add some disk drives to a couple of alphas.
> I am interested in adding SATA drives, the price is right, but am not
> sure where to
> look for compatible PCI card sata interfaces.
> Has any one tried this? does it work with FC8? is there a list of
> cmpatible cards?
> thanks
> bob
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