SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

From: Chris Boot (bootc_at_bootc.net)
Date: 08/11/05

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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:59:48 +0100

    Hi all,

    I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate drives
    and a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for the 2 drives my
    motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how hard I try, I can't get the
    hard drives to work: they are detected correctly and work reasonably
    well under _very_ light load, but anything like building a RAID array
    is a bit much and the whole controller seems to lock up.

    I can't remember the exact kernel messages, and I've unplugged the
    drives for now, but they were exactly like those in the following posts:
    http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg00958.html
    http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-21928.html

    All of these people seemed to be having trouble a good while ago, and
    other than the blacklist fix (which I have tried...) there seem to be
    no solutions to the problem at all. I can't seem to find any PCI
    controller cards not based on the SiI chipset (even the expensive
    ones) to replace my current card, either.

    Needless to say the drives on my internal VIA controller work like a
    charm.

    Has anyone run unto this problem? Any fixes?

    Many thanks,
    Chris 

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Chris Boot
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