From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go? Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:24:26 +0900 Message-ID: <42FC166A.3020505@gmail.com> References: <12872CA9-F089-4955-8751-8CC4E7B2140A@bootc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.193]:13735 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751148AbVHLDYc (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:24:32 -0400 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i20so340085wra for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:24:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <12872CA9-F089-4955-8751-8CC4E7B2140A@bootc.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Boot , Linux-ide Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > [added linux-ide to cc list] Can you please try w/ vanilla kernel (2.6.12 or 2.6.13-rc)? And w/ one drive only? -- tejun