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[Andrej Hosna <adispam AT ibl.sk>]

> I have SATA Western Digital working very well under kernel 2.4.22.  I use
> motherboard Abit NF7-S which has the Sil3112a controller.  Earlier kernel
> versions would, 2.4.21, would recognize the SIL3112A controller, but leave
> the disk in PIO mode.  2.4.22 recognizes the controller and sets it to
> UDMA-133.  You have to rebuild the kernel and set all the Nvidia configs in
> "make menuconfig" to get it to work right.  The NF7-S mobo has the nforce2
> chipset for which 2.4.22 has native support.
>
> Only problem with the SATA is the disk busy LED will not light when disk is
> busy!  Funny thing is Win2K does light the  LED when accessing the SATA
> disk. Probably a problem in the SIL3112A driver.  Don't know.
I was not able to make this running although I have gigbyte motherboard with 
athlon-xp cpu -> VIA chipset. I configured sii to be built as module buf it i 
try to insmod i get: 
SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:08.0
SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
    ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
Nothing else about disks is present in dmesg (i have seagate 120GB disk 
connected to SATA and it's properly detected by POST BIOS routines)
Do you have any idea what am i doing wrong ? How do you access discs 
connected 
to SATA ? it's not in /dev/discs/ nor in /dev/scsi. 
I forgot to tell I have linux-2.4.22 with -ac4 and -libata1 patches.
Andrej 
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