Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Chris Boot wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate drives  and 
> a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for the 2 drives my  
> motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how hard I try, I can't get the  
> hard drives to work: they are detected correctly and work reasonably  
> well under _very_ light load, but anything like building a RAID array  
> is a bit much and the whole controller seems to lock up.
> 
> I've tried adding the drive to the blacklist in the sata_sil.c driver  
> and I still have the same trouble: as you can see the messages below  
> relate to my patched kernel with the blacklist fix. I've seen that  this 
> was discussed just yesterday, but that seemed to give nothing:  
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.1/0310.html
> 
> Ready and willing to hack my kernel to pieces; this machine is no use  
> until I get all the drives working! Needless to say the drives  
> connected to the on-board VIA controller work fine, as do the drives  
> currently on the SiI controller if I swap them around.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA
> Chris
> 

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  Can you please try w/ vanilla kernel (2.6.12 or 2.6.13-rc)?  And w/ 
one drive only?

-- 
tejun