Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?
søn, 14,.08.2005 kl. 10.31 +0100, skrev Chris Boot:
> tigergutt wrote:
>
> >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=
> >
> >
> Nope, I ended up debugging the problem on LKML and Linux-IDE, where we
> figured out it was a faulty controller...
Glad you found an solution after all.
> >> Any fixes?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Maybe.
> >I swapped the disk for an maxtor :)
> >
> >
> In my case, that wouldn't have helped me at all. :-(
True.
Still makes me newer buy an seagate disk again.
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tigergutt <tigergutt@birrabrothers.com>
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