Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>
> > I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I
> > picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully.
>
> It came, I installed it, it shows a BIOS page on reboot, and lspci
> knows about it.  However, the two drives on it are unrecognized.
>
> Does this require some specific kernel options or modules or firmware?

Aiieee!  For some reason, my kernel has every SATA driver configured EXCEPT sata_mv.

I'll report back in a while ....

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