[Wlug] SATA chipset Sil 3132

[Jamie Guinan]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Eric Stein wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've recently acquired some more hard drives and I just plugged one in 
> to the secondary SATA ports on my motherboard for the first time.  
> However, my Gentoo box isn't  seeing it.  I have an Abit AN8-32X 
> motherboard (the other drives are on the Nvidia SATAII controller).  For 
> info about the board, go here:
> 
> http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/an8-32x/
> 
> In make menuconfig (from the kernel I am running right now (2.6.18)):
> <*>         Silicon Image chipset support

I'm have 2.6.19 handy, and I see,

  Device Drivers  ---> 
    ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support  ---> 
      < >         Silicon Image chipset support   

but also,

  Device Drivers  --->
    Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers  --->   
      < >   Silicon Image SATA support                                                 
      < >   Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support           

I think the latter is what you might need.  Its the new libata...
reworked IDE... thingy.  I haven't followed it that closely, but this
link might be of interest,

  http://lwn.net/Articles/198344/

-Jamie