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