From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Atkins Subject: Serial ATA (sii3512a) support Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:35:22 -0600 Message-ID: <4515624A.4090100@skircr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Hello everyone. I'm just wondering what the status is for the Silicon Image 3512a serial ata support is. I was using gentoo-sources 2.6.12 my Seagate drives worked fine. I'm now running a gentoo-sources 2.6.15-r1 and support has broken. The same thing with gentoo-sources 2.6.17-r8. I've added my drives to the sata_sil.c black list (one of them was missing) but I still get "Abnormal status 0x58 on port ..." errors. Which essentially crashes my machine. Unfortunately I don't have the 2.6.12 kernel from Gentoo any more as I did a emerge --sync and it got rid of it. Also some of the other drivers I'm using need more recent kernel versions. Just some notes on my MB/chipsets. I've got a Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro2 with an nForce2 chipset. It has a on board SATA which the manual says is a Sil3112 but the bios reports it as a Sil3512a. I've got a single 6 gig IDE as my boot device and root dir. There are also two SATA drives both are Seagates. One is a ST3250823AS (250 gigs) and a ST3120026AS (120 gigs). I know the Seagate drives have some issues and hence the black list. Just wondering if there is anything I can do to make these things work in some of the latest kernels. Thanks for you help. -- Stephen Atkins