e-sata question

[Martin Laberge]

On Monday 24 March 2008 02:50:04 Donn wrote:
> On Sunday, 23 March 2008 20:02:57 Constantinos Maltezos wrote:
> > Also, e-sata support is based on the card or chipset.  To see if yours is
> > supported, check out this page:
> >
> > http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html
> 
> My m/b manual is in a box in the garage (we moved home recently) and I cannot 
> get to it. Is there a way I can find the 'chipset' from the cli, or do I have 
> to go into BIOS and look around? 
> 
> BTW, I did a [modprobe ahci] - no errors, but no apparent new devices either.
> /var/log/messages and dmesg do not show anything happened. /dev does not seem 
> to have anything new and /media certainly has nothing.
> 
> I still have not had a chance to reboot... so it could be some dumb setting in 
> the BIOS too.
> 
> \d
> 

I suggest you use the command-line tool    'lshw'

you can have an enormous amount of info about
every chip in you system.

just do 'apt-get install lshw'   if you dont have it already installed.


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Martin Laberge
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