SATA PCI Express Card - how do I use it?

[thewolf]

I've added a SATA PCI Express card to my system to plug additional hard drives into (SATA and IDE drives)

drives that I plug in don't seem to be accessible (gparted doesn't list them)

The paperwork with the card said to add some text to the end of the kernel line of /boot/grub/menu.lst
it said that most distributions don't load the relevant drivers in the kernel by default

I'm running LM10 which uses grub2 and so the config file is /boot/grub/grub.cfg (which says not to edit it)

I added the text to the kernel line in grub.cfg and rebooted, but still no joy

any ideas ?

[xenopeek]

Can you share the instructions that came with the device? (I mean the part about Linux ) Or name the device make & model so we can look it up online.

You could scan it, or take a photo of it, and upload image to http://imgbin.org and share the link to it here.

[cimi8skywalker]

I have the same issue on my lenovo N500 running Mint 11 Katya. Any help much appreciated.

[xenopeek]

@cimi8skywalker same question as to thewolf (see my comment above), can you share (scan / photo / link to where it is online) the Linux instructions in the manual you got with the card? We need those to figure out where the steps are going wrong. The problem in thewolf's case was that the instructions were written for Grub, while Linux Mint 10 and up use Grub2.