Re: Port Multiplier Support for sata_sil24

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Greg Meyer wrote:
> Hi.  I was very excited to see port multiplier support for the sata_sil24 
> module in your patchset, but it does not appear to be working here, and I am 
> not sure if I am doing something wrong or if it still is not supported.  I am 
> working on a project to get a RAID enclosure that came with a Silicon Image 
> eSATA controller with a port multiplier. It is a MicroNet SR42000E.
> 
> We are using Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 (upgraded to release version), with a 
> self-compiled 2.6.23.1 kernel, patched with libata-tj-2.6.23-20071011.  I 
> don't recall any special compile time options during the config, and modinfo 
> doesn't display anything that looks like a runtime option.
> 
> Interestingly, the device nodes are created for the 4 separate disks (which is 
> what we want), but no disk partitioning utility, like fdisk, cfdisk or 
> qparted can open the devices.  sata_sil24 is loaded.

Log looks fine.  What do "fdisk -l" and "ls -l /dev/sd*" say?

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tejun