hi list

how do i enable serial ata support for silicon image 3112 controller on
kernel 2.4.27? i tried to enable "serial ata support" and "silicon image
sata support" under SCSI low-level drivers section but when i reboot, the
sistem hang during the boot... :-(
why when i add "silicon image chipset support" in "IDE, ATA and ATAPI
Block devices" section the hard disk is shown as to be /dev/hde and not
/dev/sda????

thanks stefano

you must disable Silicon Image chipset support in IDE drivers, it
interferes with sata driver
after you'll disable it, your sata drives will be recognized as
/dev/sd*

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:26:13 +0000, Fluke wrote:

> you must disable Silicon Image chipset support in IDE drivers, it
> interferes with sata driver
> after you'll disable it, your sata drives will be recognized as /dev/sd*

i have already tried it but without success... :-(
i have compiled the code related to my sata controller both as built-in
and as module and when it is a built-in feature the system hangs during
boot. when the code is compiled as a module and i try to add it manually,
the system crashes during the "modprobe sata_sil" command...

any suggestions?

thanks
stefano

your system probably hangs because device changes from /dev/hde to
/dev/sda... you have to adjust /etc/fstab

what kind of motherboard do you have?

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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:42:07 +0000, Fluke wrote:

> your system probably hangs because device changes from /dev/hde to
> /dev/sda... you have to adjust /etc/fstab
>
> what kind of motherboard do you have?

my motherboard is an abit nf7-s rev 2.0 with a silicon image 3112A sata
controller.

this is my fstab:

/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/sda5 /mnt/hd reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

now that sata_sil is compiled as module at the boot time i obtain the
following output:

can't locate module block-major-8
/dev/sda5 is not a valid block device

i think there is a problem with kernel configuration (i tried with kernel
2.4.28-pre3 and i obtained the same results....) if it can be helpful i
could post my configure-2.4.27 file
(i have to say that with kernel 2.6.7 there are no problems,
but i'd like to be able to use sata hd also with a 2.4.x kernel)

thank you

stefano

hm you should disable Silicon Image controller in IDE settings and
hard-code Silicon Image SATA support into kernel... this *should*
work

what is your /dev/hdb? regular ide ata drive?

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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:36:27 +0000, Fluke wrote:

> hm you should disable Silicon Image controller in IDE settings and
> hard-code Silicon Image SATA support into kernel... this *should* work

i'm sorry but i didn't understand what you mean with "hard-coding". do you
mean when i choose an option with Y and not with M? if you do, i tried
this configuration with both kernel 2.4.27 and 2.4.28-pre3 but the system
always gets hang at boot time :-((
this settings only work with kernel 2.6.7

> what is your /dev/hdb? regular ide ata drive?

yes, /dev/hdb is a regular ATA (66) IDE drive.

detail: the sata drive i'm trying to get working is a regular ata (100)
ide drive attached to the motherboard via sata bus by a sata/pata
converter found into the abit box. this should not make difference in fact
with kernel 2.6.7 everything is going ok (also in windoz the drive is
recognized as a sata drive)

thanks

> stefanowrote:
the sata drive i'm trying to get working is a regular ata (100) ide
drive attached to the motherboard via sata bus by a sata/pata
> converter found into the abit box

hm... you know, there will not be any difference if you connect it to
ata100/133 port then... even though pata supports 133mb/s and sata
150mb/s, your hard drive (well.. any ide hard drive, pata or sata)
can only read at max ~65-70mb/s, so the pata interface is more than
fast enough for your drive

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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:08:32 +0000, Fluke wrote:

> hm... you know, there will not be any difference if you connect it to
> ata100/133 port then... even though pata supports 133mb/s and sata
> 150mb/s, your hard drive (well.. any ide hard drive, pata or sata)
> can only read at max ~65-70mb/s, so the pata interface is more than
> fast enough for your drive

i did not connect a pata hd as a sata hd to gain performance but only to
didactic purpose: i am planning to buy a new hd in a few weeks and i have
to decide for a pata or a sata one. so i would like to know (before buying
it) how many problems i will have to get working a sata disk....