Silicon Image sil3112a: is this CRAP?
Someone is asking me if he can install SUSE Standard Server on a SATA RAID volume on this controller. He has a Gigabyte 7NNXP board (nvidia nforce2) with the above chip. I found the statement below on the Silicon Image support site, and it seems like COMPLETE CRAP! Precompiled kernel? Non open-source driver? Another one? Wasn't nvidia enough? Damn, this is not a good trend. Anyway, I also found a document on linuxmafia where says that suport for SATA is present in kernel >=2.4.23 or >=2.6.0. United Linux 1.0 SP3 has 2.4.21 kernel with a good number of backported features, so can he install SLSS8 on the SATA drives? Maybe booting from the UL1SP3 CD? Very sorry for cross-posting, but the slstd-e list doesn't seem to have many subscribers, so I'm hoping for an answer from suse-linux-e. SiI3x12A: Serial ATA (SATA) Linux RAID Driver - Released The latest Linux RAID driver for the SiI3x12A SATA Controller chip can be downloaded from the link on the right. These drivers support RedHat 7.3 and 8.0, Suse 8.0 and 8.1 and United version 1.0. The RAID management utility is included in the zip. Comments/Special Instructions: This is a pre-compiled kernel that has Silicon Image’s SiI3x12 RAID driver incorporated into it. Please note that until noted otherwise here, this is not an open-source driver and is therefore not officially included in any distribution or public kernel.
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 10:06, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Someone is asking me if he can install SUSE Standard Server on a SATA RAID volume on this controller. He has a Gigabyte 7NNXP board (nvidia nforce2) with the above chip.
I found the statement below on the Silicon Image support site, and it seems like COMPLETE CRAP! Precompiled kernel? Non open-source driver? Another one? Wasn't nvidia enough? Damn, this is not a good trend.
I don't know about SUSE standard server (?) but I have this card. Under SUSE 9.0, Yast picked it up but the module failed to load. In 9.1 the module (silraid or something like that) loads perfectly. I just don't have any discs to test it with. The kernel includes the opensource driver. I know there is a driver from Silicon image, no idea how it works. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
On Friday 14 May 2004 13:22, Hans du Plooy wrote: I kinda stuck onto this. I am tring to load sata_sil.ko. It loads perfectly but in dmesg doesn't show some new scsi devices. I got just the message "libata version 1.02 loaded." and thats all. Do I have to recompile the kernel with config_broken or something else? Linux kcore 2.6.4-54.5-smp #1 SMP Fri May 7 21:30:47 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux SuSE 9.1 the latest stock kernel from online update.
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 10:06, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Someone is asking me if he can install SUSE Standard Server on a SATA RAID volume on this controller. He has a Gigabyte 7NNXP board (nvidia nforce2) with the above chip.
I found the statement below on the Silicon Image support site, and it seems like COMPLETE CRAP! Precompiled kernel? Non open-source driver? Another one? Wasn't nvidia enough? Damn, this is not a good trend.
I don't know about SUSE standard server (?) but I have this card. Under SUSE 9.0, Yast picked it up but the module failed to load. In 9.1 the module (silraid or something like that) loads perfectly. I just don't have any discs to test it with.
The kernel includes the opensource driver. I know there is a driver from Silicon image, no idea how it works.
-- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 May 2004 14:20, SuSE Ground Zero wrote:
I am tring to load sata_sil.ko. It loads perfectly but in dmesg doesn't show some new scsi devices. I got just the message "libata version 1.02 loaded." and thats all.
SATA is not SCSI. Try hwinfo --disk - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFApQWK4U2uQswGyDcRAsRkAJ49IAkWb8Sbd3avIUUKHYm79TMZFwCgi4f+ eh9v+vGmYxX+vhosby69+ic= =mvP9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Friday 14 May 2004 20:44, James Oakley wrote: Well it is not the question about scsi vs. sata is just tha fact that after loading sata_sil it doesn't show any new devices like sda. It happens to know that such a module use a scsi like wrapper. Or it is just a guess. However hwinfo --disk does not show some new devices.
On Friday 14 May 2004 14:20, SuSE Ground Zero wrote:
I am tring to load sata_sil.ko. It loads perfectly but in dmesg doesn't show some new scsi devices. I got just the message "libata version 1.02 loaded." and thats all.
SATA is not SCSI.
Try hwinfo --disk
-- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com
On Saturday 15 May 2004 12:45, SuSE Ground Zero wrote:
On Friday 14 May 2004 20:44, James Oakley wrote:
Well it is not the question about scsi vs. sata is just tha fact that after loading sata_sil it doesn't show any new devices like sda. It happens to know that such a module use a scsi like wrapper. Or it is just a guess. However hwinfo --disk does not show some new devices.
I don't think it would show up as scsi devices - you might be confusing SATA with externeal USB devices, which do show up as /dev/sda ect. My SATA devices (same controller as yours) show as /dev/hde hdf hdg and hdh -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
On Saturday 15 May 2004 16:04, Hans du Plooy wrote: Ok ... I got also /dev/hde and hdg but I was talking about another device behind Raid 0 mode.
On Saturday 15 May 2004 12:45, SuSE Ground Zero wrote:
On Friday 14 May 2004 20:44, James Oakley wrote:
Well it is not the question about scsi vs. sata is just tha fact that after loading sata_sil it doesn't show any new devices like sda. It happens to know that such a module use a scsi like wrapper. Or it is just a guess. However hwinfo --disk does not show some new devices.
I don't think it would show up as scsi devices - you might be confusing SATA with externeal USB devices, which do show up as /dev/sda ect.
My SATA devices (same controller as yours) show as /dev/hde hdf hdg and hdh
-- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
On Sunday 16 May 2004 12:58, SuSE Ground Zero wrote:
On Saturday 15 May 2004 16:04, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Ok ... I got also /dev/hde and hdg but I was talking about another device behind Raid 0 mode.
My apologies, I didn't RTFQ properly :-) -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
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