Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

[Matthias Langer]

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