Hey guys and gals,

I just bought an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe board and it has the Silicon Image
Controller in it and it seems that the bare.i kernel doesn't see it. Now
previous I had the A7N8X-E Deluxe board that had the Silicon Image 3112
controller and I installed 10.0 without issue. I was pretty much under
the impression that the 3114 just had 4 sata sockets instead of the 2
that the 3112 has.

So, Anyone work with this controller before and have any advice? I have
googled my brians out and really don't see an answer per say so I
figured I would consult a more central forum....being here :-D

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:03:37 -0500, Matthew Galloway Jr wrote:
> Hey guys and gals,
>
> I just bought an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe board and it has the Silicon Image
> Controller in it and it seems that the bare.i kernel doesn't see it. Now
> previous I had the A7N8X-E Deluxe board that had the Silicon Image 3112
> controller and I installed 10.0 without issue. I was pretty much under
> the impression that the 3114 just had 4 sata sockets instead of the 2
> that the 3112 has.
>
> So, Anyone work with this controller before and have any advice? I have
> googled my brians out and really don't see an answer per say so I
> figured I would consult a more central forum....being here :-D

I have an ASUS board coming in a few days. My understanding is to use the
2.6.10 sata kernel for install vs. bare.i. Unfortunately this is still in
the planning stage and I cannot speak from experience.

It appears there have been major changes in the handling of SATA from 2.4.xx
to 2.6.10.

Rinaldi
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Le Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:46:24 -0600, Rinaldi J. Montessi a écrit*:

> I have an ASUS board coming in a few days. My understanding is to use the
> 2.6.10 sata kernel for install vs. bare.i.
why don't you use sata.i ?

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:08:15 +0100, Galkine wrote:
> Le Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:46:24 -0600, Rinaldi J. Montessi a écrit*:
>
>> I have an ASUS board coming in a few days. My understanding is to use the
>> 2.6.10 sata kernel for install vs. bare.i.
> why don't you use sata.i ?

Err. Isn't the slackware 2.6.10 sata kernel named sata.i? Or did I misread
the notes.

Rinaldi
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?

Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote :

> Err. Isn't the slackware 2.6.10 sata kernel named sata.i?

No. The sata.i kernel is the 2.4.29 version of the kernel. There's only
one "all purpose" 2.6.10 kernel in the testing tree.

> Or did I misread the notes.

I think so.
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Thomas O.

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Matthew Galloway Jr wrote:
> Hey guys and gals,
>
> I just bought an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe board and it has the Silicon Image
> Controller in it and it seems that the bare.i kernel doesn't see it. Now
> previous I had the A7N8X-E Deluxe board that had the Silicon Image 3112
> controller and I installed 10.0 without issue. I was pretty much under
> the impression that the 3114 just had 4 sata sockets instead of the 2
> that the 3112 has.
>
> So, Anyone work with this controller before and have any advice? I have
> googled my brians out and really don't see an answer per say so I
> figured I would consult a more central forum....being here :-D


TO ALL -

Ok, I will read up on this. I had heard of the sata.i kernel but since
10.0 installed without a hitch, I thought 10.1 would do the same.

Thanks you for you input!

Matthew Galloway Jr wrote:
> Matthew Galloway Jr wrote:
> > Hey guys and gals,
> >
> > I just bought an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe board and it has the Silicon
Image
> > Controller in it and it seems that the bare.i kernel doesn't see
it.

I've done this and can say that sata.i works fine with the Silicon
Image controller (the red jacks on this board).

The Slackware 10.1 sata.i however, doesn't appear to like the nvidia
sata controller (the black jacks) on this board. (I did get it working
with the 2.6.11-rc4 kernel)

Also, don't plan on installing from a SATA CD or DVD drive regardless
of which controller it is plugged in to; the sata.i kernel doesn't
support ATAPI over SATA. (I did get my Plextor SATA DVD drive working
with the 2.6.11-rc4 after applying Jeff Garzik's libata patches at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern...garzik/libata/)

-Aaron