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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Carlos Pardo <Carlos.Pardo@siliconimage.com>
Subject: Re: Support for (new?) Silicon Image PCI SATA controller
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:47:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061111224724.GA13292@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611091659.16002.wjl@icecavern.net>

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:59:15PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:

 > > > SIMG says there's no such device and it's probably bad hardware
 > > > (probably a 3512) with stuck bits in PCI ID.  If you bought it, ask for
 > > > replacement.
 > > It could also be a problem with his motherboard.  I'd try it in a
 > > different slot (or in a different machine) before returning the card
 > > as bad.
 > 
 > Guys, thank you. Your suggestion about a stuck bit sounds reasonable, since I 
 > couldn't find any indication of any device IDs from SI that matched... that's 
 > why I originally assumed it was a new device (since the hardware is 
 > supposedly fairly recent).
 > 
 > I will try this out in a different motherboard slot and if there's no luck 
 > there see if I can get this card replaced.
 > 
 > Thank for the help, and hopefully I can get it working. =)

I've seen similar things from cards with dirty connectors.
A pencil eraser over the contacts made a similar problem I saw
with a tulip card disappear.

		Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-11 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-09  1:03 Support for (new?) Silicon Image PCI SATA controller Wesley J. Landaker
2006-11-09 23:37 ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-09 23:40   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-09 23:59     ` Wesley J. Landaker
2006-11-11 22:47       ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-12-05 22:48       ` [SOLVED] " Wesley J. Landaker

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