Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 17:54 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 14 September 2009 09:20:08 schrieb Matthias Langer: 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. Did you try to boot with some LiveCD and run lspci (-vv) from there? No, I didn't... maybe I should try it on the weekend (I don't have physical access to the box I'm talking about right now.), although I doubt that it will make a difference. Thanks, Matthias signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card
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. Thanks in advance, Matthias [1]: http://tinyurl.com/qwxdza [2]: Adaptec with Silicon Image Chipset signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card
Am Montag 14 September 2009 09:20:08 schrieb Matthias Langer: 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. Did you try to boot with some LiveCD and run lspci (-vv) from there? Bye... DIrk
Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card
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? 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. 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). Stroller.
