well... i have no clue about what to change in sata_nv.o at all. any other thing i can try? thanks.

Seems that the driver format has changed with 4.x as with 3.5 you could see the actual PCI id list. How do you feel about compiling a driver?

i can try that. i have a vm with slackware 13.1 x64. else, tell me which distro to download so i can install it on a vm and work from there. what do u want me to do?

Here you can find the source for ESXi - http://www.vmware.com/download/open_source.html

And a guide to follow - http://www.kernelcrash.com/blog/using-a ... 009/08/22/.

I'm a little lost here... but I'm trying to keep going on my own. I already downloaded/installed CentOS 5.5 64 bit on a VM. I will try to continue using the instructions for the marvell driver and see how far I can go. I'll reply back later.

So far, so good. I downloaded CentOS v5.5 and the ESXi public source and was able to modify the source for the ahci module (ahci.c) to add the pci id for the Linux AHCI option in my motherboard which is 0584. i successfully recompiled using the instructions for the marvell sky2 module and it seems to be working. ESXi now sees all my 4 drives and I have successfully RDM'd them to a FreeNAS VM. I'm testing as we speak. I'll give you more details later.

I'm glad to hear that.

Hi,
i am trying to build a home system for training and learning purposes and have the same problem (Nvidia 630i chipset).
Is there a way besides recompiling the sources?
Any help appreciated.

regards

You might install ESXi and then patch it to see if the drivers have been updated. If you can find a working one then that just leaves the option to compile your own.

I have some partial success, but since i'm not realy a Linux expert and i could really use some help.
What i have done so far:
- downloaded and unpacked the sources as described above
- copied ahci.c in the drivers/ata subdir to ahci2.c and modified it to support the "10de:0584" signature (Linux AHCI mode)
- modified the build script to create ahci2.o instead of ahci.o
- created a simple.map file and inserted "10de:0584 0000:0000 storage ahci2.o"
- built an oem.tgz containg pci.ids, simple.map and the ahci2.o driver

then i used the script from here to build a custom image containing the oem.tgz file

so far so good, my hard disk gets recognized during install, install completes and i can boot and run vmware from my drive.
However, i have tried loading some files into the datastore and the system crashes under load

as i said, i am not really a Linux person, can anyone let me know what i'm doing wrong?
Thanks