Support for (new?) Silicon Image PCI SATA controller

Support for (new?) Silicon Image PCI SATA controller

[Wesley J. Landaker]

Hi folks,

I just obtained a new PCI SATA controller card that I was told was supported 
by Linux, but it doesn't appear to match up with the expected device IDs I 
see listed in the sata_sil or sata_sil24 drivers currently.

Does anyone have any knowledge about this device? e.g. is it a new Silicon 
Image device, or perhaps I am mistaken and it's a really *old* one?

Here is the output of lspci -vvnn for the device, which captures as much info 
as I know how to easily obtain. It would be really interested if someone 
could tell me if this looks anything like a possible-to-support SI device, so 
I know whether it's worth pursuing or not?

00:10.0 Mass storage controller [0180]: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device 
[1095:2502] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device [1095:2512]
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+
        Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=8]
        Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=4]
        Region 2: I/O ports at e000 [size=8]
        Region 3: I/O ports at e400 [size=4]
        Region 4: I/O ports at e800 [size=16]
        Region 5: Memory at c1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 13000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

-- 
Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>

Re: Support for (new?) Silicon Image PCI SATA controller

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Wesley.

Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I just obtained a new PCI SATA controller card that I was told was supported 
> by Linux, but it doesn't appear to match up with the expected device IDs I 
> see listed in the sata_sil or sata_sil24 drivers currently.
> 
> Does anyone have any knowledge about this device? e.g. is it a new Silicon 
> Image device, or perhaps I am mistaken and it's a really *old* one?
> 
> Here is the output of lspci -vvnn for the device, which captures as much info 
> as I know how to easily obtain. It would be really interested if someone 
> could tell me if this looks anything like a possible-to-support SI device, so 
> I know whether it's worth pursuing or not?
> 
> 00:10.0 Mass storage controller [0180]: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device 
> [1095:2502] (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device [1095:2512]

SIMG says there's no such device and it's probably bad hardware 
(probably a 3512) with stuck bits in PCI ID.  If you bought it, ask for 
replacement.

-- 
tejun

Re: Support for (new?) Silicon Image PCI SATA controller

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:37:23AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >00:10.0 Mass storage controller [0180]: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device 
> >[1095:2502] (rev 01)
> >        Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device [1095:2512]
> 
> SIMG says there's no such device and it's probably bad hardware 
> (probably a 3512) with stuck bits in PCI ID.  If you bought it, ask for 
> replacement.

It could also be a problem with his motherboard.  I'd try it in a
different slot (or in a different machine) before returning the card
as bad.

Re: Support for (new?) Silicon Image PCI SATA controller

[Wesley J. Landaker]

On Thursday 09 November 2006 16:40, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:37:23AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > >00:10.0 Mass storage controller [0180]: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown
> > > device [1095:2502] (rev 01)
> > >        Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device [1095:2512]
> >
> > SIMG says there's no such device and it's probably bad hardware
> > (probably a 3512) with stuck bits in PCI ID.  If you bought it, ask for
> > replacement.
>
> It could also be a problem with his motherboard.  I'd try it in a
> different slot (or in a different machine) before returning the card
> as bad.

Guys, thank you. Your suggestion about a stuck bit sounds reasonable, since I 
couldn't find any indication of any device IDs from SI that matched... that's 
why I originally assumed it was a new device (since the hardware is 
supposedly fairly recent).

I will try this out in a different motherboard slot and if there's no luck 
there see if I can get this card replaced.

Thank for the help, and hopefully I can get it working. =)

-- 
Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>

Re: Support for (new?) Silicon Image PCI SATA controller

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:59:15PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:

 > > > SIMG says there's no such device and it's probably bad hardware
 > > > (probably a 3512) with stuck bits in PCI ID.  If you bought it, ask for
 > > > replacement.
 > > It could also be a problem with his motherboard.  I'd try it in a
 > > different slot (or in a different machine) before returning the card
 > > as bad.
 > 
 > Guys, thank you. Your suggestion about a stuck bit sounds reasonable, since I 
 > couldn't find any indication of any device IDs from SI that matched... that's 
 > why I originally assumed it was a new device (since the hardware is 
 > supposedly fairly recent).
 > 
 > I will try this out in a different motherboard slot and if there's no luck 
 > there see if I can get this card replaced.
 > 
 > Thank for the help, and hopefully I can get it working. =)

I've seen similar things from cards with dirty connectors.
A pencil eraser over the contacts made a similar problem I saw
with a tulip card disappear.

		Dave

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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

[SOLVED] Re: Support for (new?) Silicon Image PCI SATA controller

[Wesley J. Landaker]

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On Thursday 09 November 2006 16:59, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> On Thursday 09 November 2006 16:40, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:37:23AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > >00:10.0 Mass storage controller [0180]: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown
> > > > device [1095:2502] (rev 01)
> > > >        Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device [1095:2512]
> > >
> > > SIMG says there's no such device and it's probably bad hardware
> > > (probably a 3512) with stuck bits in PCI ID.  If you bought it, ask
> > > for replacement.
> >
> > It could also be a problem with his motherboard.  I'd try it in a
> > different slot (or in a different machine) before returning the card
> > as bad.
>
> Guys, thank you. Your suggestion about a stuck bit sounds reasonable,
> since I couldn't find any indication of any device IDs from SI that
> matched... that's why I originally assumed it was a new device (since the
> hardware is supposedly fairly recent).
>
> I will try this out in a different motherboard slot and if there's no
> luck there see if I can get this card replaced.
>
> Thank for the help, and hopefully I can get it working. =)

Just to follow up with this, I got another new SATA card (just in case) and 
had another chance to take down the server in question and try to fix this. 

I did some testing with the other card and other slots and it was definitely 
the motherboard PCI slot that had problems. 

A different card in the same slot failed, moving to a different slot with 
the either card worked immediately. It's now shows up as I would have 
expected. Whew!

00:0f.0 Mass storage controller [0180]: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512 
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller [1095:3512] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512 SATALink Controller 
[1095:3512]

Anyway, thanks everyone for your help.

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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net>
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