Bug 118095
| Summary: | (IDE SIL) Bad SATA Sil 3112 performance | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Milan Kerslager <milan.kerslager> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | peterm, petrides, pmatilai, riel |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 19:01:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Milan Kerslager
2004-03-11 21:37:52 UTC
You should be using the sata_sil driver not siimage. This should be fixed in RHEL3 U3, with an upcoming update. There is no sata_sil module in the 2.4.21-15.0.4.EL kernel. The other bad news is that SATA is recognized as hd[ab] during kernel boot along with other IDE interfaces so there is IMHO no possibility to load separate sata_sil module. It seems that I have to wait for U3 few more days :-# The silraid module is in kernel-unsupported - perhaps that is what you are after? This is a different module. Module sata_sil is in 2.4.21-20.EL from U3 update. I have no clue how to init SATA disc with sata_sil module instead of siimage (siimage is builded into the kernel). Is there a way how to avoid inicialization of ide[12] (I have IDE discs too) without recompiling the kernel without siimage? Is there a reason to have siimage compiled into the kernel even there is sata_sil in place? Old legacy IDE module for SATA could be dropped IMHO. I would love to :) Unfortunately, dropping siimage means breaking existing setups... I will try to use ide=reverse. But what about U4 & drop siimage for SATA? Well, ide=reverse works. But even I used ide2=noprobe ide3=noprobe hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe, siimage takes Sil3112 chipset for itself during kernel boot (before initrd) so I'm unable to load sata_sil module then. I tryed to use onboard VIA SATA VT6420 & sata_via but it hangs or does not detect connected disc so I'm completly lost with original RHEL3 2.4.21-20.ELsmp for AMD64 (dual Opteron 242 on MSI mainboard). I have an academic licence so this is the last defense line for me :-( and I'm going to recompile the kernel with no siimage. Or do you have another idea? Thank you... I ran into the same problem here after buying two new boxes, now I'm into great trouble because I have not much time to set them up. Why not adding a kernel switch to the siimage.c to disable use by specifying a special option on kernel boot like siimage_skip=y (or siimage_load=n). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119478 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |