Re: SiL3112 SATA (RAID) Controller drives aren't working at all.

From: David Leimbach <leimy2k_at_mac.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:05:11 -0500
Hey Will and Soren! :)
On Sep 29, 2003, at 2:38 PM, Will Andrews wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:13:48PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote:
>> First off, there is ONLY support for Promise and HPT "soft RAID"
>> in the ATA driver, other vendors products are *not* supported (yet).
>>
>> Second, there seem to be a problem with some sil3112 setups where
>> timeouts and what not ruins the lunch, but so far I've not been
>> able to reproduce..
>
> I am still unable to use my SATA drive, it's probed incorrectly
> as I posted earlier.  Reverting to the August 10th 00:00 UTC
> kernel fixes this problem, so I concluded that ATAng broke this.
>

I am not running a very recent CURRENT but I do have ATAng from a fairly
early point and it works here.  [I have the same chipset as Will 
SiI3112A RAID]

> If it makes any difference, my model is a SiI3112 RAID
> controller, but I only have one drive and it probes as ad4... the
> situation doesn't improve any if I add "ataraid".  But maybe
> ATAng doesn't take into account the difference between a "normal"
> and a "RAID" SiI 3112, if any?
>

Even Linux probes both disks even though I have but one.

I don't use any RAID capabilities beyond enabling the hardware to access
SATA.

> Here are my dmesg's again (Sep 18th, Aug 10th kernels):
> http://csociety.org/~will/dmesg.badATAng
> http://csociety.org/~will/dmesg.Aug10.preATAng
>
> The problem shown in the first dmesg still showed itself when I
> tried a new kernel on Sep 25th.
>

I'd have to reboot and see how recent my FreeBSD stuff is... I have been
rather distracted by the job which pays me salary :).

> Regards,
> -- 
> wca
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