Re: SATALink Sil3112 and Linux woes

[Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>]

On 8/8/05, Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com> wrote:
> setup. Is this card well supported under Linux? If it's a black sheep,
> could someone please recommend a PCI SATA card that works well?

I have onboard SATALink Sil3112 (on my Asus A7N8X) and it's worked
fine (libata and non).

> First off, every 2.6 kernel I've tried distributed with Debian and
> Knoppix stalls for about ten minutes immediately after booting and
> without displaying anything. After waiting the ten minutes, the boot

2.6 kernel works fine with my 2 160gb drives in a linear RAID,
although I'm not sure what the issue might be.

My dmesg:
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294675.305000] libata version 1.11 loaded.
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294675.305000] sata_sil version 0.9
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294675.306000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link
[APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294675.306000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt
0000:01:0b.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 19
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294675.306000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd
0xF8804080 ctl 0xF880408A bmdma 0xF8804000 irq 19
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294675.306000] ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd
0xF88040C0 ctl 0xF88040CA bmdma 0xF8804008 irq 19
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294675.661000] ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00
82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4003 88:207f
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294675.661000] ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max
UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors: LBA48
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294675.661000] ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294675.661000] scsi0 : sata_sil
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.016000] ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00
82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4003 88:207f
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.016000] ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max
UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors: LBA48
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.016000] ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.016000] scsi1 : sata_sil
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.016000]   Vendor: ATA       Model:
Maxtor 6Y160M0    Rev: YAR5
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.016000]   Type:   Direct-Access       
              ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.017000]   Vendor: ATA       Model:
Maxtor 6Y160M0    Rev: YAR5
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.017000]   Type:   Direct-Access       
              ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.018000] SCSI device sda: 320173056
512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB)
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.018000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.018000] SCSI device sda: 320173056
512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB)
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.018000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.018000]  sda: sda1
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.041000] Attached scsi disk sda at
scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.041000] SCSI device sdb: 320173056
512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB)
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.041000] SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.041000] SCSI device sdb: 320173056
512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB)
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.041000] SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.041000]  sdb: sdb1
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.061000] Attached scsi disk sdb at
scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.061000] Attached scsi generic sg0 at
scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
Aug  8 16:01:21 rocket [4294676.061000] Attached scsi generic sg1 at
scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0

avuton
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