Serious SATA problem

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:18:38PM +0100, Heinz Suez wrote:
> Hi community,
> 
> I'm having a huge hardware issue. I have spent a lot
> of money in new hardware and don't want to sell it
> all. I own a DFI P2XBL/D motherboard with Intel 440BX
> chipset and recently bought an Omega 102 SATA PCI
> controller with SIL3112A chipset + 1 SATA2 HDD Western
> Digital 120GB 8MB buffer (Model WD1200JS, the drive is
> jumpered to work at 150 MB/sec). The motherboard meets
> PCI 2.1 specifications and no aditional pci cards are
> installed, only the sata controller and a GeForce2 MX
> in the AGP slot. I have 256 MB of apacer registered
> ecc ram. An LG cdrom and no other hdd is installed
> rather than my new sata hdd.

SIL3112* chipsets have a bad reputation and are unlikely to ever be well
supported.

-- Brooks