Re: Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard

From	Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard
Date	2020-11-26 07:50 +0100
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Scott Colby <scott@scolby.com> wrote:

> Well, I spent some more time reading dmesg logs and messing around in
> the BIOS. I enabled SR-IOV [1] and the drives appeared! I'm not
> entirely sure _why_ this worked, 

Yes, me neither. Maybe that option also changed something in the
background as well.

> but at this point (it's been over a week of messing with this), I'm a
> bit tired of looking. If anyone has thoughts on why this change fixed
> my problem, I'd love to hear them.

No idea. Firmware/BIOS and its inner working is a deep black hole I try
to stay away from.

A former collegue of mine used to work on this stuff and told stories of
how quirky and spaghetty-codey that stuff is, sometimes resembling
first-year CS students code.

S°

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard  "Scott Colby" <scott@scolby.com> - 2020-11-24 07:00 +0100
  Re: Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-11-24 08:50 +0100
    Re: Re: Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard Scott Colby <scott@scolby.com> - 2020-11-25 05:10 +0100
      Re: Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-11-25 11:10 +0100
        Re: Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard "Scott Colby" <scott@scolby.com> - 2020-11-26 04:30 +0100
          Re: Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard "Scott Colby" <scott@scolby.com> - 2020-11-26 05:20 +0100
            Re: Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-11-26 07:50 +0100

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