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rada Apprentice
Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 202 Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:41 am Post subject: Silicon Image 3132 PCI-e SATA RAID Controller driver? |
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Hi, on my AOpen i195GMm-HFS I have a SiI 3132 SATA onboard. I compiled support for Silicon Image in the kernel but it seems the driver does not support this controller. I dont really care about RAID I just want to get my SATA II hard drive working. Is there a drive that supports this? |
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rada Apprentice
Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 202 Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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No one else has this problem or this raid controller? Its ok I guess because I have intel SATA I but it'd be nice to use this controller |
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rada Apprentice
Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 202 Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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Alright i'll just wait until a driver is avlaible in the kernel. |
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afabco Guru
Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 380
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:32 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I got a Koutech PESA200 for a couple of extra hard drives. It's based on this SiI 3132 POS.
It's what I get for not doing my homework.
Send the *&#$& thing back, and tell them why. I did.
FOLLOWUP:
There's some fedora/RHEL/Suse binary-only drivers on Silicon Image's website.
http://www.siliconimage.com/support/downloadresults.aspx?pid=32&bios=0&drivers=1&sataraid=0&
keyword here is 'binary-only'.
I suggest we mark Silicon Image as yet another company that Just Doesn't Get It when it comes to linux, forget them and move on.
FOLLOWUP 2:
here is a reference to some work:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#sil24
and googling over some kernel emails vis a vis Garzik, perhaps Silicon Image did provide some documentation and hardware to Garzik et al. Perhaps Silicon Image does "get it", and the 3132 stuff just hasn't made it into the mainstream kernel yet. I dunno. If so, then my apologies to Silicon Image _________________ Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.
-Tim O'Reilly
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irondog l33t
Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 715 Location: Voor mijn TV. Achter mijn pc.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:39 am Post subject: |
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You just need a recent kernel.
I created a livecd (mainly for dmraid use). This one has a 2.6.15 kernel. You might want to download this cd. You can disable the dmraid stuff by booting with nodmraid.
http://tienstra4.flatnet.tudelft.nl/~gerte/gen2dmraid/gen2dmraid-2.0.iso
Boot the cd and load the sata_sil24 driver. _________________ Alle dingen moeten onzin zijn. |
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rada Apprentice
Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 202 Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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So theres a driver in the 2.6.15 kernel? I do remember seeing beta drivers avalible but they weren't mainlined yet. |
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