sil 3114 seagate problem

sil 3114 seagate problem

[Bradley Tate]

<http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,586,00.html>Hi,

I'm having problems with a group of ST3120026AS drives (not currently in 
the list) which unfortunately are mated with a 3114 controller on a Tyan 
motherboard. Trying to resolve a problem installing Fedora Core2 or Suse 
9.1 eventually led me to the kernel mailing list which has indicated 
that a) there is a problem and b) the fix degrades performance.

Can you tell me if the problems with the 3114 are restricted to Seagate 
drives, and everything will be rosy if I get (for example) 4 x Western 
Digital 120G drives instead? I'm a little confused about the nature of 
the issue/bug but I'll be happy just to get a working server at this stage.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask but references to this problem 
are rare.

Thanks,

Bradley.

Re: sil 3114 seagate problem

[Jeff Garzik]

Bradley Tate wrote:
> <http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,586,00.html>Hi, 
> 
> 
> I'm having problems with a group of ST3120026AS drives (not currently in 
> the list) which unfortunately are mated with a 3114 controller on a Tyan 
> motherboard. Trying to resolve a problem installing Fedora Core2 or Suse 
> 9.1 eventually led me to the kernel mailing list which has indicated 
> that a) there is a problem and b) the fix degrades performance.
> 
> Can you tell me if the problems with the 3114 are restricted to Seagate 
> drives, and everything will be rosy if I get (for example) 4 x Western 
> Digital 120G drives instead? I'm a little confused about the nature of 
> the issue/bug but I'll be happy just to get a working server at this stage.

The problems with Silicon Image 311x appear to be limited to Seagate drives.

	Jeff