SATA PCI card recognized, but no drive(s) visible

[cbrace]

Hi all,

I have an old Pentium 4 which I use as an ADSL gateway/server/WAP for my LAN. Alas the motherboard doesn't support SATA, so I popped an PCI SATA card in the system.

At startup, the SATA card BIOS is displayed with the drive connected to it.

After FreeBSD boots, lspci sees the card:

$ sudo lspci | grep Initio
02:0c.0 SATA controller: Initio Corporation INI-1623 PCI SATA-II Controller (rev 02)

But when I startup sysconfig, it doesn't see the drive that is attached.

Anyone know what is going on here?

Thanks.

$ uname -r
9.0-CURRENT

 

[mav@]

I would say it is quite rare controller, and so not supported.

 

[phoenix]

Okay, it shows in lspci (you really should use pciconf). But, does the kernel actually see the controller and attach a driver to it?

Check the output of pciconf -vl. If it shows as none*: then the kernel didn't attach a driver to it.

 

[jb_fvwm2]

On the chance it sees the *drives* but not the *devices* there
are modules to load that should fix it. (Other posts tell which).

 

[cbrace]

Thanks for reminding me of pciconf.

none2@pci0:2:12:0:	class=0x010600 card=0x16221101 chip=0x16221101 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Initio Corporation'
    device     = 'PCI SATA Controller (INIC1620)'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = SATA

No driver

 

[tangram]

Yup not supported by FreeBSD (I also have one). AFAIK this card isn't supported by any of the BSDs.