SATA sil problems ...

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Wed Sep 13 06:34:07 PDT 2006


I also have one of these that doesn't work with FreeBSD.  I just replaced 
the controller.  What is worse is there are different versions of this chip 
some that will work with FreeBSD, but many don't.

         -Derek


At 05:51 AM 9/13/2006, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>On 9/12/06, Micha³ Garcarz <teknet8 at o2.pl> wrote: > Hello > > I have SATA 
>SIL 3112 controller. Unfortunately it is not working > correctly under 
>FreeBSD. It does not work for me, and i found on > google that it doesn't 
>work correctly for many other people. > I tried Freebsd 4.x, 5.x and 
>6.1. > Here are the errors which occur when system works: > > Sep 12 
>11:03:35 multix kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET > TRANSFER MODE 
>taskqueue timeout - completing request directly > Sep 12 11:03:35 multix 
>kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 > retry left) LBA=8159967 > 
>Sep 12 11:55:36 multix kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA > 
>status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=8878591 > Sep 12 
>11:55:36 multix kernel: ar0: WARNING - mirror protection lost. >  RAID1 
>array in DEGRADED mode > Sep 12 11:55:36 multix kernel: ar0: writing of 
>Silicon Image Medley > metadata is NOT supported yet > > Do You have 
>similar problems ? Please try to disable its RAID capabilities, and tweak 
>some compatibility settings, if any. Sil3112 is known to be crap, but it's 
>also known to work for many FreeBSD 6.x users. > What SATA controller 
>could you suggest ? > I must be on card (PCI?) so i could plug in to my 
>current server. It > have to work stable under Freebsd 6.1. It should be 
>chip. It doesn't > have to be real hardware RAID (it can use software from 
>BIOS). Don't use software RAID "from BIOS", use gmirror/gstripe/gvinum. -- 
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