On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 05:27:56AM +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >>>> I'm trying to get more Sata connections and eSata ports. > >>>> the PCI-Express card i bought > BYTECC PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card Model BT-PESAPA > >>>> Will i be able to make it work on Suse, being a simple user ? > >>> I think so, yes, but the "hotplug" capability of the individual sata > >>> devices might not work as Linux doesn't quite have full support for > >>> that. > >>> > >>> Also, the poweron/poweroff of the pci express slot card is a bit > >>> "different" for some laptops. You might have to manually load the > >>> acpiphp and/or the pciehp drivers to get it to work properly for > >>> hotplugging the card itself. > >>> > >>> And, to top all that off, only the most recent laptops have proper pcie > >>> expresscard support in their bioses as the other "major" operating > >>> system didn't offer hotplug support until Vista, so no one tested them > >>> very well :( > >>> > >>> If you have any problems, or questions with this, please let me know. > >> Thank you, Greg. > >> This card sits on my mainboard. > >> What steps should i take to make it work ? > > Heh, I totally got this one wrong :) > > It should "just work" with 10.3, does it not? > Thank you Greg, it works :-) > The reason it did not see my drives in the yast partitioner earlier > is because the card uses jumpers to decide whether to use > Con1 (Sata) or Con3 (eSata) and Con2 (Sata) or Con4 (eSata) > and the instructions printed on the card are wrong for the > series i got, although, contrary to the manual, they are right > for another batch of those cards :-) > > Are you planning on enabling external drive functionality > (mounting on connecting eSata, right-click unmount) > or does this need an effort by Kernel developers ? > Are they working on that ?
Yes, they are working on hotplug support for external sata drives, just give it some time :) Glad it's working for you, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
