From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Ryan Earl" Subject: Re: siimage and two nics Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 03:48:53 +0000 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FEBAFA5.8020604@clanhk.org> References: <20031226085450.A4045@nettis.grimsta> <34449.209.163.161.49.1072444479.squirrel@mail.clanhk.org> <20031226195705.B4045@nettis.grimsta> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from palace.clanhk.org ([64.5.48.96]:51104 "EHLO mail.clanhk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265235AbTLZVxo (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:53:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031226195705.B4045@nettis.grimsta> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Brahneborg Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org >If I boot with the siimage module builtin, the kernel doesn't >find the root device (set to /dev/hda2). > > You can't use the Via sata for the root device? It's off the slow PCI bus, it'll be much faster anyway. >As a workaround, I now skip the siimage module entirely, and only >load the sata_via and sata_sil modules. This makes all 4 SATA >drives come alive as sda, sdb etc, leaving hda untouched. I get >50 MB/s with hdparm -tT, so it seems to work fine. > > Be careful, sata_sil is broken. It is not stable, and has failed every stress test I've tried on it. The siimage ide driver is actually stable around v1.09. >New Problem: > >I still have a rather serious problem, also SATA related. I want >to have two network cards in that machine, one of them being a >common 8139 card. As the other one I want to use the via-rhine >card on the motherboard. The first network card comes alive >without problem, but when I try to do "ifconfig eth1 up", the >entire machine comes to a complete stop. Not even Caps Lock work, >and I have to power cycle it. Two 8139 cards have the same effect. >Removing the Silicon Image card makes it work fine. How do I do >to get some debug information on what happens? > >Here is the output from lspci -v. > > dmesg? '/proc/version'? newest bios? move the sata card to a new pci slot? -ryan