Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 14 Sep 2009, at 08:20, Matthias Langer wrote:

> 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.

Hi Matt,

I'm not an expert on the vagaries of MacPro hardware, which after all  
uses EFI instead of a BIOS, but are you using the same kernel  
configuration with the MacPro as you are on the PC that is working?

I would *expect* these to work. Is it possible you're using a kernel  
that's configured specifically for Mac hardware, and that merely omits  
the drivers for card. I'd really expect that compiling in the modules  
for the cards would make them work.

We can perhaps be more help if you post the .config (`zcat /proc/ 
config.gz > file`) for both machines & the output of `dmesg` (with the  
cards fitted).

Stroller.