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Chris Boot wrote: > 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 > [added linux-ide to cc list] Can you please try w/ vanilla kernel (2.6.12 or 2.6.13-rc)? And w/ one drive only? -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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