On Monday 23 June 2003 11:06, Zack Gilburd wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2003 10:52, Ross Jordan wrote: > > > I've got my hands on an ABIT KD7-S SATA RAID motherboard (Silicon > > > Image SIL3112A chipset). Has anyone had any experience with the > > > on-board SATA-controller (with or without the RAID)? I'd like to be > > > able to use the hardware RAID (two disks, one on each channel), but > > > software will work also. > > > > It is doubtful that any (ide) on-board controller is really hardware > > RAID. They are usually just IDE controller with drivers (i.e. software) > > for RAID support. > > > > The supported chipsets and vendors page is here: > > http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html > > > > It lists the sil3112 as SATA controller (not hardware raid). > > > > Cheers, > > Ross > > Good luck getting the 3112(A) to work ATM. There are "fixes" being > developed right now, but with some kernels I get early boot panics, with > others I have to use the infamous (?) /proc fix.
Replying to myself....woohoo... I found my `lspci -v` output rather
interesting.
01:08.0 Unknown mass storage controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI
3112 SATARaid Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid
Controller
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
I/O ports at a800 [size=8]
I/O ports at ac00 [size=4]
I/O ports at b000 [size=8]
I/O ports at b400 [size=4]
I/O ports at b800 [size=16]
Memory at d4028000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Even though my SiI3112A is not "hardware" RAID capable.
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Zack Gilburd
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