Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752771Ab1CEW7j (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2011 17:59:39 -0500 Received: from plecavalier.com ([64.40.149.83]:39314 "EHLO plecavalier.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751667Ab1CEW7j (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2011 17:59:39 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: [RESOLVED] Re: Second drive on VT6421 From: Philippe LeCavalier To: =?utf-8?q?Alejandro_Riveira_Fern=C3=A1ndez?= , linux-kernel In-reply-to: <1299355624-sup-9766@plc.intranet.plecavalier.com> References: <1299350988-sup-2113@plc.intranet.plecavalier.com> <20110305210537.7675b600@varda> <1299355624-sup-9766@plc.intranet.plecavalier.com> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:59:34 -0500 Message-Id: <1299365533-sup-1295@plc.intranet.plecavalier.com> User-Agent: Sup/0.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1624 Lines: 43 Hi All, I tried setting both drives to 1.5Gbps on a whim and low and behold it worked. btw. setting a single drive to 1.5 didn't help. I had to set both. I had considered this from the beginning but thought that since each drive was detected on their own at 3Gbps there was no good reason they couldn't both. There must be something about that chip...Perhaps the way the firmware allocates the bandwidth. ie 2 channels with a total of 3Gbps then a second drive cannot coexists if the first requests all 3Gbps?! Excerpts from Philippe LeCavalier's message of Sat Mar 05 15:07:33 -0500 2011: > thx. > > If I can provide more nfo pls ask. > > Excerpts from Alejandro Riveira Fernández's message of Sat Mar 05 15:05:37 -0500 2011: > > El Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:00:44 -0500 > > Philippe LeCavalier escribió: > > > > Adding linux-ide to CC > > > > > I know it's been discussed but since it's been a while, has anyone > > > managed to get a second drive detected with this card? > > > > > > I'm on Deb Squeeze with 2.6.32-5 > > > > > > sata_via is loading fine and I can see the drives if they're connected > > > individually but not if I connect both. If I do connect both I only see > > > one of them -which is always from the same port-. > > > > > > To be clear, I'm not referring to the eSATA port. I'm not up to that > > > yet. -- Thanks, Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/