I have a brand new machine (a dual Opteron) that runs off of SATA 
disks.  It has a Silicon Image 3114 SCSI RAID controller.

When I run the machine, my dmesg fills up with the following message:

> hda: status error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hda: status error: error=0x00
> hda: ATAPI reset complete

Sinec this message often indicated a failing drive, I replaced the hard 
drive with a SATA drive of a different brand that I had in my 
cabinet-o-parts.  I get the same message.

Is there anything special that any of you all have had to do to make the 
sil3114 work properly with SL4?  Is there another driver that needs to 
be installed -- or a kernel parameter that will set the driver to a less 
agressive setting?

Thanks,
-Luke

P.S. The lspci program shows the following output:

> 02:05.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD 
> Technology Inc) SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller 
> (rev 02)


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Luke Scharf, Systems Administrator
Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean Engineering