Mount device via PCI card

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My Gigabyte GA-E3800N (rev. 1.x) motherboard has only two SATA connectors. I bought a VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE/SATA Controller and plugged it into my one and only PCI connector. Invoking lspci, it is recognized as 02:00.0 RAID bus controller. Is there some way I can mount a hard drive or DVD connected to it, preferably at boot time, because neither device appears accessible anywhere.

Thanks in advance.

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It is not clear to me if you have some mass-storage device connected to that controller.

When yes, it should be detected by the system (at boot) and appropriate device files should be created by udev.

So look in dev/disk/* if you can find files there that point to what you think represents the device.

When in doubt or needing help in interpretation, you can post of course

ls -l /dev/disk/*
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Hi
Does it detect your attached devices if you run (as root user);


rescan-scsi-bus.sh
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Thanks to both of you for the speedy responses. I believe the problem was physical, because when I removed the card to confirm its maker, I wiped the contacts with a liitle acetone. Then just to cover all the possibilities I replaced the SATA cable which had retaining clips with another without clips. Now everything works and the cable is in the garbage.