Hi all, I recently bought a computer with a Silicon Image 3512 SATA chipset and a 200GB Seagate ST320082 hard drive without knowledge that these two pieces of hardware don't play nicely. However, I called Seagate tech support and they told me that upgrading my bios would fix the problem. Fortunately my motherboard's manufacturer posted an upgrade 2-3 days after I learned of the fix.
I upgraded my motherboard's bios which updated the Silicon Image RAID bios to 4.3.53. That seems to have solved the incompatibility problem. I've had yet to have a crash during intense drive usage while running with the MOD15 bug blacklist off. Those poor souls that have a hard disk in the sata_sil blacklist, if you're willing to risk it, try upgrading your bios, comment out your hard drive from the black list and see if you're able to run at full speed without the drive hanging. John Yau - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
