After all, this may be a motherboard bios configuration issue. I own a Asrock ALiveDual-eSATA2 [1] : with the last bios update (version 1.40, changelog "Modify code for PCI function." [2]), it seems the issue disappeared with ubuntu 8.10. This won't explain why the device worked with different distributions and kernel versions, but I hope it can help someone.
After all, this may be a motherboard bios configuration issue. I own a Asrock ALiveDual-eSATA2 [1] : with the last bios update (version 1.40, changelog "Modify code for PCI function." [2]), it seems the issue disappeared with ubuntu 8.10. This won't explain why the device worked with different distributions and kernel versions, but I hope it can help someone.
[1] http:// www.asrock. com/mb/ overview. asp?Model= ALiveDual- eSATA2& s=n www.asrock. com/mb/ download. asp?Model= ALiveDual- eSATA2
[2] http://