Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?
tor, 11,.08.2005 kl. 18.59 +0100, skrev Chris Boot:
> 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 can't remember the exact kernel messages, and I've unplugged the
> drives for now, but they were exactly like those in the following posts:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg00958.html
> http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-21928.html
>
> All of these people seemed to be having trouble a good while ago, and
> other than the blacklist fix (which I have tried...) there seem to be
> no solutions to the problem at all. I can't seem to find any PCI
> controller cards not based on the SiI chipset (even the expensive
> ones) to replace my current card, either.
>
> Needless to say the drives on my internal VIA controller work like a
> charm.
>
> Has anyone run unto this problem?
Like this ?
http://www.google.no/search?hl=no&q=sata_sil+mod15+quirk+with
+Seagate&btnG=Google-s%C3%B8k&meta=
> Any fixes?
Maybe.
I swapped the disk for an maxtor :)
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