From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751148AbVHLDYd (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:24:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751149AbVHLDYd (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:24:33 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.194]:24488 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751146AbVHLDYc (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:24:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bghvflJVQ0+/hpLZfzIEAvSjhv+kFRbW9P7sHTikaKQLVJWq/GH0rpl5dH7yX9F/lpL+0QDoZ/dfOLBqfBwKmeqNk1Yj6aTq9EVjMCPGHZ+SmSiWjHqKhVLEfPKxb16nirOfh4XJSzNCCfpdahAUyE52Bl8l5FqecN9RyMrMCF0= Message-ID: <42FC166A.3020505@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:24:26 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050402) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Boot , Linux-ide CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go? References: <12872CA9-F089-4955-8751-8CC4E7B2140A@bootc.net> In-Reply-To: <12872CA9-F089-4955-8751-8CC4E7B2140A@bootc.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: 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