On Saturday 15 December 2007 21:24:09 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 15 December 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: > >Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings; > >> > >> When I asked about a sata controller earlier this week, I gave a link to > >> it. Unforch (maybe) when it actually arrived, the cards box showed a > >> silicon image chip, and the card had a via. So much for getting what I > >> ordered... > >> > >> The required module then was sata_via, not sata_uli, and it seems to be > >> working ok. However, this one claims its a raid controller according to > >> an lspci -v: > >> > >> 01:0a.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID > >> Controller (rev 50) > >> Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller > >> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 > >> I/O ports at 9400 [size=16] > >> I/O ports at 9800 [size=16] > >> I/O ports at 9c00 [size=16] > >> I/O ports at a000 [size=16] > >> I/O ports at a400 [size=32] > >> I/O ports at a800 [size=256] > >> [virtual] Expansion ROM at e9000000 [disabled] [size=64K] > >> Capabilities: [e0] Power Management version 2 > >> > >> I just noted that the Expansion ROM is disabled, but I didn't see any > >> jumpers to enable it on the card prior to installing it. Does anyone > >> know how this is supposed to work? I would like to make it directly > >> bootable but I believe this has to be 'enabled' for that. > > > >It's usually normal for it to be disabled after boot, I believe. Are you > >getting anything showing up on boot indicating its BIOS is active? > > No, not a thing. Also invisible in the mainboards bios config AFAICT.
Normally this option is called "Enable Option ROM" or enable "INT 13/19h hook". See if you have such an option. It's surprising this isn't enabled by default. However, the BIOS still might not support directly booting off the controller, I'm afraid. -- Cheers, Alistair. 137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
