I`ve got kernel 2.6.8 smb mdk Sil image 3112 A, Gigabyte motherboard 2x150 GB Maxtor drives. The same problem of 2 separate /dev/sda and /dev/sdb drives occurs.
I installed the raid before by the bios utility, partitioned in M$U&^* XP to 3x 100GB NTFS drives. Now after trying to mount the partitions /dev/sda1 : not a valid superblock or something similar appears.
So far:
/dev/sda (1st maxtor 150 GB drive) appears as: 300GB 3 partitions unmountable
/dev/sdb (2nd maxtor 150 GB drive) appears as: 300 GB no partition unmountable
modules used:
sii_ata (i hope so, there is only this one sii_xyz something in the modules directory)
ataraid
I`ll try the:
mkraid command today or see around if it helps.
(mkraid /dev/md0) or similar.
sofar following topic have been useful to bring a little bit of light into the raid world of sii:
Software raid howto (sil image 3114 specific)
http://unclean.org/howto/sii3114_linux.html
yoper forum: SATA 3112 issues:
http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=1077
in german language:
http://www.yoper.de/portal/viewtopic.php?t=176
does anybody have an experience with medley raids? sofar i know: software raid is not useful for me, hardware raid exists with true SCSI chips and Sil Image PCI and onboard cards should be in the "medley" mode = working under 2.4 kernels with the "modprobe medley"
But what about kernel 2.6 ???