Re: gigabyte iRam not seen by linux

[Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Jure Pečar wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 

This pseudo SATA drive looks interesting. There is a SATA connector
on the PCI adapter. At the first glance, I thought it is a new
SATA adapter, but it is not.
(http://www6.tomshardware.com/2005/09/07/can_gigabyte/page2.html)

I am curious how it response to things like reset and IDENTIFY
DEVICE. Looking forward to Jure's dmesg.

--
Albert