From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: SiI 3114 and sata_sil Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:42:18 -0500 Message-ID: <45D4A98A.7070705@pobox.com> References: <45D4A705.4050407@andrei.myip.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:57965 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030512AbXBOSmX (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:42:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45D4A705.4050407@andrei.myip.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Florin Andrei Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Florin Andrei wrote: > (I'm not subscribed to linux-ide) > > I've two almost identical systems (slightly different CPUs) that use SiI > 3114 for SATA and RAID. > > One of them was installed a while ago with Fedora Core 5 (kernel > 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp) and whoever installed it was able to turn on > hardware RAID. This chip does not support hardware RAID. The capability simply isn't there in the silicon. http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html#sii Jeff