On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:13:08PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 01:55:48AM +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
Congratulations and thank you for OpenSuse 10.3.
I'm trying to get more Sata connections and eSata ports. Apparently the PCI-Express card i bought needs a change in the Kernel:
For linux (in the kernel config), you need to check the box for support for "AHCI SATA support" and "Jmicro IDE" support. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16815283005
Will i be able to make it work on Suse, being a simple user ?
I think so, yes, but the "hotplug" capability of the individual sata devices might not work as Linux doesn't quite have full support for that.
Also, the poweron/poweroff of the pci express slot card is a bit "different" for some laptops. You might have to manually load the acpiphp and/or the pciehp drivers to get it to work properly for hotplugging the card itself.
And, to top all that off, only the most recent laptops have proper pcie expresscard support in their bioses as the other "major" operating system didn't offer hotplug support until Vista, so no one tested them very well :(
Ok, that was a whole lot of "reservations", sorry, I didn't mean for it to come accross that way at all. I have a device like this here and it works just fine, and has for years, and this manufacturer acknowledges Linux support, so you should be fine. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org