[WBEL-devel] Re: Amd64 Sil3114 or Sil3115 drivers in install/boot kernel?

[Pasi Pirhonen]

Hi,


On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 01:39:34PM -0500, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> Pasi:
> I don't know the exact details of the hardware you are testing on but I have
> a Tyan Thunder K8W dual opteron motherboard that has a Serial ATA controller
> made by Silicon Image. It is a Sil3114 or Sil3115 (in RAID mode) chip and
> the system has two serial ATA drives hung off of that channel. I tried the
> SuSE9 boot.iso media to see if it is found but no luck. Do you know if the
> boot/install kernel you are using has a driver for this controller?


I think you don't see it with this either. I've pached the
2.4.23-libata1.patch.gz in my own test-kernels, but that doesn't work
for dual-Opteron for Sil either. Sil is working with single Athlon64
tho.

The release we're talking about, is just 'replica of RHEL3', so you
don't get anything more.

My dual-Opteron is Tyan K8S, so it's pretty much same expect it does have
promise SATA onboard. I do have Sil SATA adapater as PCI-card, so i
have VIA, Promise and Sil covered on 'home lab'.

> 
> I know there is one in the 2.6.0-test11-mm1 kernel source but I don't know
> if it has been ported to the 2.4 series.

As above. the libata wasn't working for me with dual-opteron. I aven
had some emailing with the author (Jeff Garzik) and he said pretty much
that 'Sil is braindamaged' :)

When i'll have those amd64/ia64 releases out, it'd be pretty much first
priority fot me to get SATA working under amd64 at least. I do have
2x250GB and 1x120GB SATA-drives laying around just now waiting for
support under amd64.

I am just building the install for ia64 and then i'llhave to test it
out by installing several combinations. I'll expect to upload that
public monday.

HTH


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