Adding a SATA

[Verde Denim]

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I am revisiting this to try and get it working again...
I have a SATA card (new) that I want to add to my Ubuntu box (Dell
4300 Dimension currently with 2 IDE drives)
I currently have one 500GB drive (new, formatted in ext3, tested)
attached to the card (it has two available SATA ports)

dmesg | grep SATA  reports this -
[149.947314] ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xe0848c80 ctl 0xe0848c8a
bmdma 0xe0848c00 irq 19
[149.947406] ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xe0848cc0 ctl 0xe0848cca
bmdma 0xe0848c08 irq 19
[150.273960] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[180.726755] ata4: SATA link up 1.5Gbps  (SStatus 113 SControl 310)

lshw reports this -
description: RAID bus controller
product: SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller
vendor: Silicon Image, Inc
physical id: 9
bus info: pci at 02:09.0
logical name: scsi2
logical name: scsi3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage bus_master cap_list scsi-host
configuration: driver = sata_sil latency 64
resources: ioport:ecb8-ecbf ioport:ecb0-ecb3 ioport: eca0-eca7 ioport:
ec98-ec9b ioport ec80-ec8f iomemory: fe1bfc00-fe1bfdff irq19

hwinfo reports the driver as active

The problem is that there isn't a device in /dev for it. The disk was
formatted to ext3 prior to installing it in the card. Should the drive
be low-level formatted with the SCSI utility which appears at boot
prior to its being used?

Thanks for any help. I'd really like to have the storage on the system.

Jack


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