I am having the same problems with the siimage driver as those posted in
the thread "siimage driver status". Also I read all the posts on the
siimage driver.
My motherboard is an Abit NF7-S rev2.0, nforce2 chipset and SIL3112A
controller. I tried the "hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hde" trick but I get the
dma timer error, siimage reset message, and the system repeats these
messages. Finally, after a long delay I get all kinds of io errors
reported from my ext3 journal and filesystem. At this point I have to
reset the system and reboot, back into the PIO mode. I don't know
anything else to try. Help.
I am running the 2.4.21 kernel.
I will send any additional info required if I can, and act as a test
case for the Abit NF7-S board. Most posts seem to be on the Asus mobo.
JohnC