Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:05:11 -0500 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> Subject: Re: SiL3112 SATA (RAID) Controller drives aren't working at all. Message-ID: <9D00B12E-F2C0-11D7-A349-0003937E39E0@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030929193808.GT72999@procyon.firepipe.net> References: <61180692781.20030929202947@buz.ch> <200309291913.h8TJDmCI013173@spider.deepcore.dk> <20030929193808.GT72999@procyon.firepipe.net>
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Hey Will and Soren! :) On Sep 29, 2003, at 2:38 PM, Will Andrews wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:13:48PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: >> First off, there is ONLY support for Promise and HPT "soft RAID" >> in the ATA driver, other vendors products are *not* supported (yet). >> >> Second, there seem to be a problem with some sil3112 setups where >> timeouts and what not ruins the lunch, but so far I've not been >> able to reproduce.. > > I am still unable to use my SATA drive, it's probed incorrectly > as I posted earlier. Reverting to the August 10th 00:00 UTC > kernel fixes this problem, so I concluded that ATAng broke this. > I am not running a very recent CURRENT but I do have ATAng from a fairly early point and it works here. [I have the same chipset as Will SiI3112A RAID] > If it makes any difference, my model is a SiI3112 RAID > controller, but I only have one drive and it probes as ad4... the > situation doesn't improve any if I add "ataraid". But maybe > ATAng doesn't take into account the difference between a "normal" > and a "RAID" SiI 3112, if any? > Even Linux probes both disks even though I have but one. I don't use any RAID capabilities beyond enabling the hardware to access SATA. > Here are my dmesg's again (Sep 18th, Aug 10th kernels): > http://csociety.org/~will/dmesg.badATAng > http://csociety.org/~will/dmesg.Aug10.preATAng > > The problem shown in the first dmesg still showed itself when I > tried a new kernel on Sep 25th. > I'd have to reboot and see how recent my FreeBSD stuff is... I have been rather distracted by the job which pays me salary :). > Regards, > -- > wca > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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