Re: gigabyte iRam not seen by linux

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Jure Pečar wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun