From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnbqO-0002wV-CF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:29:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF05BE0998; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 516A1E0998 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Sep 2009 17:29:29 -0000 Received: from chello080108115144.1.11.univie.teleweb.at (EHLO [192.168.0.64]) [80.108.115.144] by mail.gmx.net (mp071) with SMTP; 15 Sep 2009 19:29:29 +0200 X-Authenticated: #28563408 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/lLBA47FnlILmnjSalegQQmnPs0gu+oVCBicsC/D 0dQUZAQoH2uKFZ Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card From: Matthias Langer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <14987A2E-2880-42CE-8B5D-2B22DA809D43@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <1252912808.5317.9.camel@vega.lnet> <14987A2E-2880-42CE-8B5D-2B22DA809D43@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-i9PuwnIBiPrZQgtgnSac" Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:29:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1253035765.4977.11.camel@vega.lnet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.57 X-Archives-Salt: d8aa4983-0006-4872-8471-c41e6ca3fdab X-Archives-Hash: 4a782e516aba38ecd55580b0e5c6be98 --=-i9PuwnIBiPrZQgtgnSac Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 00:04 +0100, Stroller wrote: > On 14 Sep 2009, at 08:20, Matthias Langer wrote: >=20 > > Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running > > Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in > > connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not recognized by the > > kernel (or even lspci) on the MAC Pro. >=20 > Hi Matt, >=20 > I'm not an expert on the vagaries of MacPro hardware, which after all =20 > uses EFI instead of a BIOS, but are you using the same kernel =20 > configuration with the MacPro as you are on the PC that is working? As far as the eSATA Cards are affected the configuration should be identical. I fear that it has something to do with EFI. > I would *expect* these to work. Is it possible you're using a kernel =20 > that's configured specifically for Mac hardware, and that merely omits =20 > the drivers for card. I'd really expect that compiling in the modules =20 > for the cards would make them work. >=20 Unfortunately it doesn't. I've manually loaded the module that is responsible for the card on ordinary PC hardware on the MAC - without success. > We can perhaps be more help if you post the .config (`zcat /proc/=20 > config.gz > file`) for both machines & the output of `dmesg` (with the =20 > cards fitted). >=20 I'm going to do this on the weekend, as right now, I don't have physical access to the box I'm talking about, and the eSATA card is currently not built in. Thanks, Matthias --=-i9PuwnIBiPrZQgtgnSac Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkqvzvUACgkQ7MvyVd+UcwO98gCcDJyefSEXvjJagc4QjnBLN5Xv 6nIAn1EMXpJHPlC/NspJSJMpM/nAxiqL =iy+Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-i9PuwnIBiPrZQgtgnSac--