pe2900: pci-e card not detected

[Noah Dain]

I recently purchased a pci-express 1x esata card for a 2900 (silicon
image 3132 chip).  It's the only card in the system (besides a perc
5/i).

The card does not show up at all.  Not in the bios irq list, the OS's
regular kernel, nor knoppix.

To troubleshoot:
- manually loaded the sata_sil24 driver, still nothing.
- plugged it into a workstation.  showed up and worked fine (xp and knoppix).
- thinking that it was perhaps the card's firmware, I wiped it with a
utility from silicon image.
- with erased firmware, I plugged it into a workstation.  showed up
and worked fine (xp and knoppix).
- plugged it into the 2900: still no sign of it at all.
- manually loaded the sata_sil24 driver, still nothing.
- updated system firmware (bios, perc, backplane) and still nothing.

-noah


--- only system info below ---

dmidecode snippet:
'''
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
        Product Name: 0TM757
        Version: A00
        Serial Number: ..XXXXXXXXXXXXX.
'''
lspci:
'''
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset Memory Controller
Hub (rev 12)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
x4 Port 2 (rev 12)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
x4 Port 3 (rev 12)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
x4 Port 4 (rev 12)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
x4 Port 5 (rev 12)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
x8 Port 6-7 (rev 12)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express
x4 Port 7 (rev 12)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset DMA
Engine (rev 12)
00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Error
Reporting Registers (rev 12)
00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Error
Reporting Registers (rev 12)
00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Error
Reporting Registers (rev 12)
00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved
Registers (rev 12)
00:13.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved
Registers (rev 12)
00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD
Registers (rev 12)
00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD
Registers (rev 12)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI
Express Root Port 1 (rev 09)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
UHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 09)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
UHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 09)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
UHCI USB Controller #3 (rev 09)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
UHCI USB Controller #4 (rev 09)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset
EHCI USB2 Controller (rev 09)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d9)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset LPC
Interface Controller (rev 09)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80333 Segment-A PCI
Express-to-PCI Express Bridge
01:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80333 Segment-B PCI
Express-to-PCI Express Bridge
02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev c3)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
06:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express
Upstream Port (rev 01)
06:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to
PCI-X Bridge (rev 01)
07:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express
Downstream Port E1 (rev 01)
07:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express
Downstream Port E2 (rev 01)
08:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev c3)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
10:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)
'''