I have an Abit NF7-S motherboard, 2 HD drives on the SATA controller (Silicon Image 3112).

I have made install with “linux acpi=off noapic”.

When I try to install Mandrake Linux 9.2RC2 (same with redhat or SuSe) i have some errors when install try to make some partitions or format the drive :

hdg sata_error = 0x00000000 , watchdog = 0 , siimage_mmio_ide_dma_test_irq

The silicon image driver is a precompiled driver and don't work witrh mandrake.

Any idea ?

Install LINUX on a PATA for now. Then find out what kernel version that Redhat 8.0 uses. Compile the kernel for that version. Your SATA should then work. Next make the partitions on your SATA hard drives and format the partitions. Edit your boot loader configuration file and run the installer for the boot loader to write itself to the MBR of the SATA. Then copy from the PATA to the SATA. Knoppix might be easier for this.

IMO, RAID should be used for applications that needs a lot of throughput like video, sound, high dpi graphic files. If you want faster accessing times to load up your applications faster buy a WD Raptor hard drive or a SCSI hard drive.

It's too hard for me.
I'm a with linux.

I found a driver at Silicon Image and i install redhat 9.0


http://www.siimage.com/products/sii3112.asp

but this is a pre-compiled kernel (no source) and i think it cause problems if i try to upgrade my kernel.

Found at silicon image web site :

Comments/Special Instructions:
This is a pre-compiled kernel that has Silicon Image’s SiI3x12 RAID driver incorporated into it. Please note that until noted otherwise here, this is not an open-source driver and is therefore not officially included in any distribution or public kernel.

Hi thanks for the previous post. I used the boot switches: “linux acpi=off noapic” and things went better except for a bad second disk.

I had been having similar problems with an install on a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro motherboard with on-board SATA RAID and two 120 Gb WD JB drives in RAID 1 configuration, 512M DDR400, FX5200 Video.

I have tried installing on the mirror set but when it got to the point of writing the boot sector it stalled completely and when I crashed and went back into Win2k (sorry, trying to wean myself off the evil empire) the RAID set was broken!

Any clues?

Regards,

JK (new to Linux but SysAdmin on SCO - boo, hiss!)

hdg sata_error = 0x00000000 , watchdog = 0 , siimage_mmio_ide_dma_test_irq

this error is due to the SATA/IDE adapter.

With an REAL Sata drive it works nice....

I'm using suse 9.0 Pro

Been able to get these 2*80 Gb Sata Hdd in Raid0 working with

Patching a module with fixscript from suse 8.2 .
and edited this in /etc/init.d/boot.local

echo max_kb_per_request:15 > /proc/ide/hde/settings
echo max_kb_per_request:15 > /proc/ide/hdg/settings
hdparm -X66 /dev/hde
hdparm -X66 /dev/hdg
hdparm -d1 /dev/hde
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdg

It 's nog Mega Fast as it should be, but hey , it works for the time beeing