On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 00:04 +0100, Stroller wrote: > On 14 Sep 2009, at 08:20, Matthias Langer wrote: > > > Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running > > Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in > > connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not recognized by the > > kernel (or even lspci) on the MAC Pro. > > Hi Matt, > > I'm not an expert on the vagaries of MacPro hardware, which after all > uses EFI instead of a BIOS, but are you using the same kernel > configuration with the MacPro as you are on the PC that is working?
As far as the eSATA Cards are affected the configuration should be identical. I fear that it has something to do with EFI. > I would *expect* these to work. Is it possible you're using a kernel > that's configured specifically for Mac hardware, and that merely omits > the drivers for card. I'd really expect that compiling in the modules > for the cards would make them work. > Unfortunately it doesn't. I've manually loaded the module that is responsible for the card on ordinary PC hardware on the MAC - without success. > We can perhaps be more help if you post the .config (`zcat /proc/ > config.gz > file`) for both machines & the output of `dmesg` (with the > cards fitted). > I'm going to do this on the weekend, as right now, I don't have physical access to the box I'm talking about, and the eSATA card is currently not built in. Thanks, Matthias
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