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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:27:37 -0500
From: "Parag Warudkar" <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
To: thanasis@asyr.hopto.org
Subject: Re: Sil 3132 SATA II express card
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Thanasis <thanasis <at> asyr.hopto.org> writes:

>
> I have compiled in kernel (2.6.27) support for Sil 3132:
> CONFIG_SATA_SIL24=y
>
> When I insert the card in the laptop's slot, dmesg shows nothing new.
> Is this normal?
>

Last time I tried that I had to modprobe the pcie hotplug module
(pciehp?) before inserting the card and even then it only worked some
times.

If you boot with the card plugged in that should work - I haven't
tried lately but pciehp was flaky on my hardware (MacBook  Pro).

Parag
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