Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754433Ab0BBDdv (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:33:51 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:36080 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753463Ab0BBDdu (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:33:50 -0500 Message-ID: <4B679EA9.6030203@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:40:25 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091130 SUSE/3.0.0-1.1.1 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chandra Nepali CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: port multiplier problem References: <4B5885F7.2020007@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B5885F7.2020007@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1541 Lines: 44 Hello, On 01/22/2010 01:51 AM, Chandra Nepali wrote: > I have a disk array of 12 disks. The interface card has two sil3726 port > multiplier for 10 disks (5 disks in each port multiplier) and 2 direct > sata connectors. The host controller is sil3124. It was connected to > suse 10.4 and working fine. Wasn't 10.3 the last of 10 series? After that it was 11.0. What's the version of the kernel? > There was a high voltage accident (high voltage to disk array only, not > computer) and because of that we replaced the power supply of this disk > array. Now, we are getting some problem, disks are not being > recognized,. Ouch... > So, I connected it to Fedora 12 (To correct if it is > because of some bugs) with driver sil24. Here are few things that I have > tested. > > 1) If I connect only one disk to direct sata connector, it works fine. > 2) If I connect two disks to both direct sata connectors, it won't work. > 3) If I connect one disk to one direct sata and one disk directly to > host controller, it works. What do you mean by 'direct sata'? How is it different from 'directly to host controller'? > 3) If I connect one or more disk to PM, it won't work. > 4) If I connect one disk to direct sata and one to PM, it won't work. Maybe the PMP is fried? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/