Dear SL Gurus,

Related: last year Luke Scharf asked about a similar problem, with
a Silicon Image 3114 controller.
There were no replies. Is there any solution to his question?

(Sigh. An opteron server with a Silicon Image 3114 SATA controller is
on its way to us. Will it be GreatGrief too?)

WL / grateful**N for advice on this....


> Date:         Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:50:30 -0400
> From:         Luke Scharf <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:      sil3114 & SL4
>
> 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
>
> Since 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) --
>
> Luke Scharf, Systems Administrator Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean 
> Engineering