From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Addonics 5-Port HPM-XU (USB/ESATA) port multiplier Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:20:51 -0600 Message-ID: <4F0FA313.2040904@gmail.com> References: <6BDC5BD2-F838-49B9-A8AE-69DB0F121087@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-vx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:49247 "EHLO mail-vx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750901Ab2AMDUy (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:20:54 -0500 Received: by vcbfk1 with SMTP id fk1so48943vcb.19 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:20:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <6BDC5BD2-F838-49B9-A8AE-69DB0F121087@mac.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Perry Wagle Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 01/10/2012 10:11 PM, Perry Wagle wrote: > I'm trying to get a Addronics 5-Port HPM-XU (USB/ESATA) port multiplier to > work on Fedora 16, and it will see only one disk on the up-to-five SATA disk > device while in non-RAID mode. > > Since my crashbox is a notebook without SATA, I tried to get USB to work > first. The thread on that is at: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&w=2&r=1&s=addronics&q=b > > (note the misspelling of addonics). > > My interpretation of what was going on there is that the second disk is > assigned a SCSI LUN of 1, but that's not handled properly. > > Now I'm trying to get it to work via ESATA, and I'm having a similar experience > (before I got errors, but now nothing). I'm assuming a similar thing is going on > here, except that my (weak) reading of the source has it not sending LUN's > at all. So the second disk isn't seen at all. > > What information do you need to help me out? Well, there's not really such a thing as LUNs with SATA - for it to show up as multiple drives it would have be identified as a port multiplier instead of a single drive. What shows up in dmesg when the device is connected?