My motherboard (Asus P4P800 Dlx) has an ICH5/5R controller hub that includes, amongst many other things, a Serial ATA controller. lspci fails to list the device. The "unusual" fact here is that there are no SATA disk drives connected to the SATA controller. However, I would still expect that the SATA controller would be recognized. Why is not being found by the kernel PCI initialization code that finds PCI devices? Is it because, 1: The motherboard BIOS sees no connected hard drives and "hides" it; or 2: The SATA controller chip sees no connected hard drives and "hides" itself; or 3: The kernel PCI init code sees no connected hard drives and skips it. (AFAICT the kernel is NOT doing this) or 4: something else. If there is anyone else out there, who has a SATA controller but no SATA disks, do you see the controller in lspci? Cheers Grant -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
