Bug 62944 – silicon image si3112 doesn't init on gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.8

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Hunter Cook 2004-09-05 12:45:10 UTC]

2.6.8 kernels don't register drives on my si3112 SATA controller, causing a kernel panic because that's the only drive in the system. kernels <= 2.6.7 work properly.

This is probably a bug in the 2.6.8 sources themselves, but I'm not real sure.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a machine that boots off a drive on a si3112 SATA controller.
2. emerge and compile gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.8+ with si3112 SATA support (under Device Drivers -> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL Support)
3. Install the kernel, reboot, wait for the kernel panic.

[Comment 1 Brad Cowan (RETIRED) 2004-09-06 07:36:37 UTC]

afaik the ide libata stuff for sata is deprecated....please try device-drivers>scsi>low-level>sata support + sil.  "works for me" :P

[Comment 2 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-09-07 03:34:13 UTC]

..and bear in mind that this will change the device naming, your hard disk will probably become /dev/sda

[Comment 3 Hunter Cook 2004-09-07 08:18:00 UTC]

Neat. Thanks for the replies; I haven't tried it yet, because I'm not at the box to hit reset if it should hang with the new kernel, but I will as soon as I get home.

Assuming that does fix the problem, what am I supposed to do with this bug? Resolve it? And do you guys think I should drop a quick note to LKML asking them to put a 'deprecated' note on the ide-based sil driver?

Thanks again for the help.

[Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-09-07 10:44:43 UTC]

Up to you if you want to post a bug report (assuming using libata solves the problem..) - i've already seen discussion for marking the old drivers as deprecated.

[Comment 5 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-09-21 16:22:57 UTC]

Please reopen this bug if you have problems even after switching to libata/sata.