i'm having trouble getting my sil680 hard drive controller card
working properly. the kernel sees the card at bootup, and i can load
the module, but i cannot access the hard drive attached to it.

here are the contents of /proc/ide:

root@drei:~# ls /proc/ide/
drivers hda@ hdb@ hdc@ hdd@ ide0/ ide1/ siimage

no ide2 or hde as i'd expect, but siimage shows up after the siimage
module is loaded.

root@drei:~# cat /proc/ide/siimage
Controller: 0
SiI680 Chipset.
MMIO Base 0xdd800000
MMIO-DMA Base 0xdd800000
MMIO-DMA Base 0xdd800008

from dmesg:

SiI680: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0b.0
SiI680: chipset revision 2
SiI680: BASE CLOCK == 133
SiI680: 100% native mode on irq 19
ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhio

from lspci:

00:0b.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0680 (rev 02)
Subsystem: CMD Technology Inc PCI0680
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
I/O ports at a000 [size=8]
I/O ports at 9800 [size=4]
I/O ports at 9400 [size=8]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8800 [size=16]
Memory at dd800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

i have only one drive attached to it at the moment - a 40GB hitachi.
i'll hook up my WD after i get this one working.

ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhio

This is IDE2. and apparently IDE3. which means you have a total of (0,1,2,3)
4 IDE channels that your kernel is recognizing.

just try and mount the drive attached.
of course, specifying its filesystem type, drive/partition, and target /mnt/?? point.
Dont forget to create the target first though. maybe 'mkdir /mnt/ide3 '

and add it to fstab once you figure out which drives are which and what partitions on the ide3 channel.

AutOPSY,

that was the first thing i tried. nothing on /dev/hde through /dev/hdh.

#fdisk -l /dev/hde
(nothing)

#hdparm -i /dev/hde
/dev/hde: No such device or address

nobody has had this problem?

I been having this problem too, over both Slackware 10 and Fedora Core 2 with kernels 2.4.x and 2.6.x

For some reason with both distros, the driver SiI680 sees the drives on the first boot, but as soon as you restart they disappear...

UPDATE: Apparently its something wrong with the boot manager (at least on my end) thats causing the problem. When I boot up Slackware via Lilo the drives never show up. However if I boot with the CD using:

bare.i root=/dev/hdb2 noinitrd ro

All my drives come up and are mounted according to my fstab, which fail otherwise. The funny thing is.. I'm using the same kernel on my hard drive that I'm boot off the cd with.

Anyone know of a option for Lilo or Grub to prevent me from having to do this?

Booting via ISOLINUX shows the drives, but booting via GRUB or LILO prevent this...

Does anyone have a solution to this problem? (I would prefer to boot via GRUB then risking my Slack disc..)

I've got an Sil680 card (Siig Ultra ATA 133 Raid Controller) with two
Maxtor 40GB drives attached. Even though I've configured the two drives
(in BIOS during bootup) as a RAID1 set, Linux still sees them as individual
drives at hde and hdg.

Anyone know if there's a separate device for accessing them as a raid pair?

I tried all the /dev/ataraid entries but none of them seem to be attached to
anything.

System is Fedora Core 2 (kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2)