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[John T Copeland <johnc AT neto.com>]

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 12:40 am, Andrej Hosna wrote:
> > 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

An update.  Try building the SII driver built into kernel.  Mine is.
JohnC