søn, 14,.08.2005 kl. 10.31 +0100, skrev Chris Boot: > tigergutt wrote: > > >tor, 11,.08.2005 kl. 18.59 +0100, skrev Chris Boot: > > > > > >>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 can't remember the exact kernel messages, and I've unplugged the > >>drives for now, but they were exactly like those in the following posts: > >>http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg00958.html > >>http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-21928.html > >> > >>All of these people seemed to be having trouble a good while ago, and > >>other than the blacklist fix (which I have tried...) there seem to be > >>no solutions to the problem at all. I can't seem to find any PCI > >>controller cards not based on the SiI chipset (even the expensive > >>ones) to replace my current card, either. > >> > >>Needless to say the drives on my internal VIA controller work like a > >>charm. > >> > >>Has anyone run unto this problem? > >> > >> > > > >Like this ? > > > >http://www.google.no/search?hl=no&q=sata_sil+mod15+quirk+with > >+Seagate&btnG=Google-s%C3%B8k&meta= > > > > > Nope, I ended up debugging the problem on LKML and Linux-IDE, where we > figured out it was a faulty controller...
Glad you found an solution after all. > >> Any fixes? > >> > >> > > > >Maybe. > >I swapped the disk for an maxtor :) > > > > > In my case, that wouldn't have helped me at all. :-( True. Still makes me newer buy an seagate disk again. -- tigergutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> birrabrothers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
