From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: gigabyte iRam not seen by linux Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:51:50 +0900 Message-ID: <4411BCB6.5080108@gmail.com> References: <20060310013604.1acac722.pegasus@nerv.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.176]:19061 "EHLO pproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751170AbWCJRvz (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:51:55 -0500 Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id d42so428739pyd for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:51:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20060310013604.1acac722.pegasus@nerv.eu.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?B?SnVyZSBQZcSNYXI=?= Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jure Pe=C4=8Dar wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > 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=3D411600 >=20 > What can one do when there *is* something on the sata port but the dr= iver 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 ...=20 >=20 > I'd really want to use this ssd under linux, but I don't know how to = debug the problem from here. >=20 Please set up either a vanialla kernel (preferably the latestet one,=20 2.6.16-rc5) or, if you can use git, #upstream branch of libata-dev=20 repository. Before compiling the kernel, change #undef ATA_DEBUG in=20 include/linux/libata.h to #define ATA_DEBUG. You might also need to=20 increase the size of printk buffer size (kernel hacking -> kernel log=20 buffer size). After booting with such kernel, please post the result of dmesg. Thanks. --=20 tejun