Re: "bleating edge" What is the SiI 0680 chipset status?
From: Resident Boxholder
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 21:32:57 EST
siimage.c is not broken, works, and may be perfect, since workarounds
point to ioapic
handling for which siimage.c is just downstream. ioapic code could be
fine, too, and
boards or chips responsible for ioapic problems, but ioapic is involved
when things
go wrong. Total ACPI lobotomy is unnecessary, acpi is valuable.
Alan Cox wrote:
On Maw, 2003-09-02 at 17:55, Tomasz BÂtor wrote:
I recently got MiNt PCI IDE ATA/133 RAID controller based on SiI 0680
chipset. I browsed through the archives and I know that the driver is
known to be broken and simply doesn't work.
It just works. You do want 2.4.22 ideally, and you want 2.4.22-ac to use
hotplug.
Alan
SiI680 siig ata/133 card, siimage.c(and no separate cmd640 fix option)
kern 2.6.0-test4,
kernel APIC on but kernel IOAPIC off then hdparm -c1 -d1 -p9 -u0 -X70
the drives
on the sii680
cmos setup setting APIC off gets rtl8139c card to ping by letting linux
turn apic on
That's nforce2 mbo with rtl8139c on **card** and sii680 on card.
Then rtl8139a **onboard ** with all via chips in a Shuttle SK41G toaster
FX41 mbo had
the same no-ping problem fixed by using kernel 2.6.0-test2 or test4
instead of 2.4! That
defines 2.6 as "bleating edge" for sheeple--turning acpi off is more
drastic than necessary,
and the siimage.c driver is not "broken" or perhaps even involved with
the IOAPIC problem,
and using 2.6 can make something work where 2.4 doesn't.
I guess sii680 qualifies as bleatiing edge. I was close to going scsi-bear.
Actually I pulled the raid jumper off sii680 so sii680's two drives and
two more on
onboard amd74xx nforce2 are handled by linux software raid0, reiserfs.
-Bob
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