On Sunday 14 December 2008 9:29 am, Tony Alfrey wrote:
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.
Thanks! On order: "1 internal port, 1 e-SATA, SiI3132 Chipset, PCI express SATA II card" From the first link you gave: Silicon Image 3124/3124-2 (chip in 4-port SATA-II PCI-X cards) and 3132 (chip in 2-port SATA-II PCI Express cards) (Silicon Image, Inc., formerly CMD Technology, Inc.) — libata's sata_sil24 driver (production quality) supports Silicon Image 3124 (2005-08) and also the follow-on 2-port PCI Express SATA-II successor chip, the Silicon Image 3132. (Per 2004-07-08's libata status report, Silicon Image provided Garzik with docs and sample hardware.) SuSE 9.3 has sata_sil.ko but no sata_sil24.ko: # l /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-21.17-smp/kernel/drivers/scsi | grep sil -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16368 May 3 2007 sata_sil.ko Hope it works! Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org