Per Jessen wrote:
Robert Paulsen wrote:
Hi,
I just added an eSATA card to my Dell and hooked a laCie 1TB drive to it. The BIOS recognizes it since I see that during the boot process but SuSE does not recognize it.
Well, SuSE is not completely oblivious. This shows up with lspci: 0000:02:02.0 Class 0106: Initio Corporation: Unknown device 1622 (rev 02)
Is SuSE 9.3 just too old for this? Is there something I can do to make it work? The drive is recognized and works fine via a USB connection.
It's not about the drive, it's about the interface. To get it to work with 9.3, you'll need to upgrade the kernel upgrade as well as various utilities and such.
I run eSATA drives on SuSE 9.1. I found that I needed a SATA controller that had linux drivers available for it on the SuSE CD. Here are websites that list SATA drivers and matching chipsets. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html Silicon Image chipsets are supported. I use a model SD-SATA150R two-port card from SYBA. There were actually linux drivers for the chipsets on a CD that came with the controller, but I also had SATA drivers on a SuSE CD. You will need the sata_sil or sata_sil24 driver. When I installed 9.1 on a fresh drive, the installation asked me if I needed some drivers and I pointed it to these and everything was fine. I might add that I also dual boot this box with an IDE drive for windoze and SATA drives for several linux distros. Other than the SATA controller and the SuSE 9.1 CD, that was all I needed to make SATA work. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org