On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 04:32:41PM -0700, Grant wrote: > My motherboard (Asus P4P800 Dlx) has an ICH5/5R controller hub that > includes, amongst many other things, a Serial ATA controller. I have the same mainboard. > lspci fails to list the device. Same problem here. > 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. Same for me. > 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 Maybe. > 2: The SATA controller chip sees no connected hard drives and "hides" > itself; or Maybe. > 3: The kernel PCI init code sees no connected hard drives and skips > it. (AFAICT the kernel is NOT doing this) or Hum, I dont think. > 4: something else. I dont know. > If there is anyone else out there, who has a SATA controller but no > SATA disks, do you see the controller in lspci? No ;) -- Julien Danjou · http://www.jdanjou.org <julien@jdanjou.org> · · GPG/1024D · 9A0D 5FD9 EB42 22F6 8974 C95C A462 B51E C2FE E5CD · -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
