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

From: Derek Ragona (derek_at_computinginnovations.com)
Date: 09/30/03

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    To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
    
    

    My troublesome system uses an Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA which has the
    SiI3112 RAID chip. I have only one drive connected, so no RAID functionality.

    Here is my verbose dmesg using the 9/28/03 snapshot:
    http://www.computinginnovations.com/dmesg.html

             -Derek

    At 12:38 PM 9/29/2003 -0700, 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.
    >
    >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?
    >
    >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.
    >
    >Regards,
    >--
    >wca
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