show must go on

[...]but still Beta Release. ftp://ftp.tyan.com/drivers_linux/Silicon_Image/3114/ http://www.tyan.com/l_german/support/html/drivers_linux.html

well, RAID-0 doesn't work and just for fun i've tried RAID1. YaST2 detected harddisk OK, but after format I got the infinite timeout. I restart machine first time and try to install again. Well, and again i got infinite timeout but in addition no response to keyboard. Well, I restart machine again and... one of two absolutelly new MAXTOR HDDs starts to tick rhythmically, absolutelly similar as those HDDs before die, when HDD head reaches movement range clipper. Then, one disk is not found by *BIOS*. I thought HDD is simply went down... but then I've found, that it runs OK alone ! then i've removed one HDDs of two to get somehow into a RAID setup and deleted RAID set. Restart. All disks were found OK, but BIOS doesn't go anymore further :-/ after several reboot it all works again ! I've never heard about possibility to make nice rhythmic sounds hitting the clipper by the head via normally working controller or even get ability to fail detecting HDDs by BIOS ... my question: is SIL 3114 OK at all? -- Valery