Re: eSATA woes

2009-12-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:43:24 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 07:30:07PM +, Camale?n wrote: >> > 0001:10:12.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3124 PCI-X >> > Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) >> >> Just a hint: check the BIOS of the card (you usually get ther

Re: eSATA woes

2009-12-18 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 03:30:18AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Gregory Seidman put forth on 12/17/2009 10:37 AM: > > > It's automatically detected and the sata_sil24 module loads. The problem > > comes when I try to connect an eSATA enclosure. I get console messages > > immediately upon connecti

Re: eSATA woes

2009-12-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Gregory Seidman put forth on 12/17/2009 10:37 AM: > It's automatically detected and the sata_sil24 module loads. The problem > comes when I try to connect an eSATA enclosure. I get console messages > immediately upon connecting an eSATA drive, but it goes through a cycle of > trying to establish a

Re: eSATA woes

2009-12-17 Thread Mark
>On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Gregory Seidman < gsslist+deb...@anthropohedron.net >wrote: > >That's an interesting thought, but it's a bit complicated by the fact that >the old hardware in question is a G4-era Mac. Any idea how to check on that >without a BIOS? I literally have no PC hardware

Re: eSATA woes

2009-12-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 07:30:07PM +, Camale?n wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:37:53 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > I've been running a RAID1 on Firewire for years, but I really want SMART > > monitoring and SATA drives (and enclosures) keep getting cheaper. I'm > > running on older hardware

Re: eSATA woes

2009-12-17 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:37:53 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I've been running a RAID1 on Firewire for years, but I really want SMART > monitoring and SATA drives (and enclosures) keep getting cheaper. I'm > running on older hardware with only PCI slots, no PCI-E or PCI-X, so I > picked up a PCI S

eSATA woes

2009-12-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
I've been running a RAID1 on Firewire for years, but I really want SMART monitoring and SATA drives (and enclosures) keep getting cheaper. I'm running on older hardware with only PCI slots, no PCI-E or PCI-X, so I picked up a PCI SATA card with two SATA ports and two eSATA ports. It shows up in lsp