Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Monday 12 December 2005 19:35, Peter Kitchener wrote:
>
>>I have a problem with a new Seagate hard disk. The problem occurs when i
>>go to install CentOS, i insert the cd and start the boot up process,
>>when it gets to the section where it detects the hard disks, the driver
>>is seems crashes, the message it produces complains about no one caring
>>about a interrupt on IRQ11. The hard disk is a Seagate 200GB 8MB SATA150
>>NCQ drive, on a SilliconImage 3112 PCI adapter card. Does anyone have
>>any ideas?
>
>
> I have seen the exact same error (on IRQ 10) with a Maxtor SATA drive on a
> Silicon Image controller. Let's see:
> 00:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid]
> Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller
> Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
> I/O ports at 9000 [size=8]
> I/O ports at 9400 [size=4]
> I/O ports at 9800 [size=8]
> I/O ports at 9c00 [size=4]
> I/O ports at a000 [size=16]
> Memory at ee180000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
>
> Motherboard is a VIA KT400, Soyo DRAGON Platinum IIRC.
Tsk, tsk. Same old VIA. I have the exact same motherboard and I cannot
use my DC10 capture card due to VIA's horrible latency problems.
>
> Everything is OK until I put a SATA drive on the controller, and then it won't
> boot. Machine is running right now just fine, using PATA drives.
Running fine until you try something that requires low latency.
So do we now add if motherboard = VIA, keep Silicon Image card and
Seagate driver, change motherboard? Sigh.
