Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:37:57 +0100
From: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dale Blount <linux-kernel@dale.us>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1210SA (SiL3112)
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:59:57AM -0400, Dale Blount wrote:
> So I've moved on to the Adaptec card (only card I could find with a SiL
> chipset).  I'd rather use a 3114 card as I need 4 ports, but I couldn't
> find any info on support/cards using that chipset.
> 
> The current problem is that the SiL3112 keeps throwing 'lost interrupt'
> messages.  I've tried DMA off/on all with no luck.  Here is the relevant
> output from dmesg:

   I get the same problem with this card. It takes my machine 90
minutes to reboot -- 30 to shut down, and 60 to restart, due to the
LVM tools scanning all of my drives. I've got a 120Gb SATA drive which
is just dead weight in this machine, I can't use it at all because of
these problems.

   Can anybody say exactly what the problem is, and how we might go
about fixing it? I haven't even seen anyone just saying "it's not
frobbing the foobar properly -- you need to get the docs from SiI to
work out why".

> Is there anything else I can do to get this card working?  Or another
> sata card *verified* working under 2.4.2x?

   I have been told by someone that the SIIG cards (with SiI3112A
chips) work under Linux. I can't confirm this, though.

   Hugo.

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