Stardom SATA HSM violation

[Bryan Woods <bryan@arbores.ca>]

Hi KML

I am installing gentoo 2007.0 (kernel 2.6.19) on a dual AMD Opteron server (total of 4 cores). The hard disk is a Stardom 2611-2S-S1 device: actually two 250GB drives in a RAID0 config managed by the device itself - it should appear to the kernel as one SATA drive. If it matters, the underlying HDs are "Seagate Barracuda 7200 10"s. Here's the device:

 http://www.synetic.net/Synetic-Products/Stardoms/SR-2611-SA/Stardom-2611.htm

During the install and at different points in the process I get an "HSM violation" and the system becomes unresponsive. It looks like a similar situation to:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/6/195

Will more recent kernels work with this hardware (should I keep it and try the install again) or should I switch hardware to something more compatible (like an Adaptec card)?

Thanks!
Bryan

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console output:

tag 0 cmd 0x39 Emask 0x2 stat 0x58 err 0x0 (HSM violation)
exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen

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Output from hdparm -I /dev/sda:

/dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
	Model Number:	STARDOM V.36.A0B
	Serial Number:
	Firmware Revision:	V.36.A0B
Standards:
	Used: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0

[snip]

Commands/features:
	Enabled Supported:
	*	SMART feature set
	*	Power Management feature set
	*	Advanced Power Management feature set
	*	48-bit Address feature set
	*	Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
	*	SATA-I signaling speed (1.5 Gb/s)
	*	SATA-II signaling speed (3.0 Gb/s)

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Parts of dmesg:
libata version 2.00 loaded
sata_nv 0000:00:05.0: version 2.0
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD480 ctl 0xD402 bmdma 0xCC00 irq 21
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD080 ctl 0xD002 bmdma 0xCC08 irq 21
scsi0 : sata_nv
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ATA-6, max UDMA/133,976794112 sectors: LBA48
ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 1
ata1.00: applying bridge limits
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100