Okay, I went from the installer to "Execute a shell", but in the shell, lspci was not recognized as a command, so this won't take me further. :( (I don't have Linux, WinXP only ! Would it help you if I let a Suse Live CD run and lspci from there?)
What interesting is, that there's a module called "siimage" in the installer's list, but I think that's for another type of silicon image controller. Would it perhaps help, if the installer would include sata_sil in it's list of selectable modules ? One another thing: people talk about that in lots of SATA topics that we have to set the "compatibility mode" in the BIOS so the installer sees the HDD - then recompile kernel etc with sata_nv and finally BIOS back to normal. I don't understand this, why to install a linux that hard way, on the other hand this procedure was for the sata_nv but probably would also work for sata_sil.. but anyway, why ??? This stupid WinXP installs onto both controllers without any word .. I don't have spare PATA HDD to cheat the whole thing out and MSI boards doesn't have "compatibility mode" regarding SATA controllers either - so it means, my BIOS reports on the "Energy Star" pre-boot screen the following: Primary Master - None Primary Slave - CDROM (actually name differs) Secondary Master - None Secondary Slave - None Third Master - None Fourth Master - None Fifth Master - My SATA Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (160G) Sixth Master - None That's it. Third & Fourth are sata_nv and of course unused because of the NOT-fixed 33MHz clock, Fifth & Sixth are sata_sil whici I use right now. If I disable Third & Fourth in the BIOS, Fifth and Sixth won't appear as Third and Fourth, for PATA IDE Secondary Master controller "Disable" it's the same. On my Abit IC7 Intel chipset I had that Compatibility mode where if a controller was disabled, higher numbered channels took it's number, but now that's not the way to handle it. But anyway, if linux does have sata_sil already, we just need to put it into the menu of the debian installer as a loadable module, or am I wrong ? :( Sry for being so long ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 12:53 PM Subject: Re: SATA Silicon Image 3114 support for A64 images ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]