Tejun Heo wrote: > Jure Pečar wrote: > >> >> I just got a gigabyte solid state disk on a test. However, it is not >> seen by linux. The problem is described well here: >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=411600 >> >> What can one do when there *is* something on the sata port but the >> driver doesn't recognize it? It's not even in the /sys/block/ or >> /sys/bus/scsi/ ... If I don't have the device, I can't use sg utils >> to ask it how it feels ... >> I'd really want to use this ssd under linux, but I don't know how to >> debug the problem from here. >> > > Please set up either a vanialla kernel (preferably the latestet one, > 2.6.16-rc5) or, if you can use git, #upstream branch of libata-dev > repository. Before compiling the kernel, change #undef ATA_DEBUG in > include/linux/libata.h to #define ATA_DEBUG. You might also need to > increase the size of printk buffer size (kernel hacking -> kernel log > buffer size). > > After booting with such kernel, please post the result of dmesg. > > This pseudo SATA drive looks interesting. There is a SATA connector on the PCI adapter. At the first glance, I thought it is a new SATA adapter, but it is not. (http://www6.tomshardware.com/2005/09/07/can_gigabyte/page2.html) I am curious how it response to things like reset and IDENTIFY DEVICE. Looking forward to Jure's dmesg. -- Albert - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
