Hi. I'm trying to expand internal storage in a Blade 100, most recently running 4.6, will jump to 4.7 if that helps.
The firmware for the internal native PATA controller is of course limited to 120G. I am looking to add one or more additional large disks internally and I do not need to boot from them. Some reading suggests that a Silicon Image PCI (or PCI-E ?) adapter to use sili(4) may or should work. Of course I'm limited to PCI on this box. I am using a SYBA SD-SATA2-2E2I PCI SATA II Controller Card PCI-X/PCI SATA card sporting a Silicon Image 3124 device. I have tried the card in the upper and lower slots, and tried both internal drive connectors on the card. The Blade has OBP 4.0.45 currently. Pre and post hardware installation inspection (manual and diff) of dmesg and eeprom -p output doesn't show anything new or unidentifiable. I cannot at the moment test the card elsewhere, so I suppose I've a duff card or I've misread and it simply isn't supported. Has anyone done something similar as I am attempting? Thanks.
