[Wylug-help] Creating Device files for Drives on Extra SATA bus

[Dave Fisher]

Hi,

You may have noticed that I need to backup some partitions.

Do do so, I've installed 5 new drives on an additional SATA controller
card (PCI-X).

lspci detects the controller and the kernel loads the sata_mv module.

Unfortunately, no extra disk device files appear to be created and no
error messages appear in the relevant logs.

lspci output:

05:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09)
        Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 11ab
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
        Region 0: Memory at ed400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Region 2: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
        Region 3: [virtual] Memory at ed000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=4M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: sata_mv
        Kernel modules: sata_mv

Any ideas?

Dave