SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

[Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>]

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've tried adding the drive to the blacklist in the sata_sil.c driver  
and I still have the same trouble: as you can see the messages below  
relate to my patched kernel with the blacklist fix. I've seen that  
this was discussed just yesterday, but that seemed to give nothing:  
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.1/0310.html

Ready and willing to hack my kernel to pieces; this machine is no use  
until I get all the drives working! Needless to say the drives  
connected to the on-board VIA controller work fine, as do the drives  
currently on the SiI controller if I swap them around.

Any ideas?

TIA
Chris

The following messages are sent to the log when everything goes mad:

ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd8 host_stat 0x0
ata1: status=0xd8 { Busy }
SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x80000002
sda: Current: sense key=0xb
ASC=0x47 ASCQ=0x0
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 2990370
ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port E0802087
ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port E0802087
ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port E0802087
[ the above is transcribed so may not be 100% accurate ]

Dmesg log during boot (and detection):

Aug 11 21:47:05 arcadia Linux version 2.6.12-gentoo-r6  
(root@arcadia.bootc.net) (gcc version 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo  
3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1)) #2 Thu Aug 11  
20:19:00 BST 2005
...
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia sata_sil version 0.9
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18  
(level, low) -> IRQ 177
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE0802080 ctl  
0xE080208A bmdma 0xE0802000 irq 177
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE08020C0 ctl  
0xE08020CA bmdma 0xE0802008 irq 177
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01  
84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168  
sectors: lba48
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata1(0): applying Seagate errata fix
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia scsi0 : sata_sil
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01  
84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168  
sectors: lba48
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata2(0): applying Seagate errata fix
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia scsi1 : sata_sil
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3250823AS        
Rev: 3.03
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia Type:   Direct-Access                       
ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3250823AS        
Rev: 3.03
Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia Type:   Direct-Access                       
ANSI SCSI revision: 05

lspci:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600  
AGP] Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
0000:00:0a.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI  
3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems (former Lucent  
Microelectronics) FW323 (rev 61)
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420  
SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/ 
VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI  
USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI  
USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI  
USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI  
USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge  
[KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.  
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102  
[Rhine-II] (rev 78)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11  
[GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

Many thanks,
Chris

--
Chris Boot
bootc@bootc.net
http://www.bootc.net/




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