Hi,
The 3726 multiplier is in fact built into an external box:
http://www.datoptic.com/cgi-bin/web.cgi?product=Sbox-P&detail=yes
I connected the box with the 3726 multiplier to a 3132 based pci-x card
via an eSATA cable.
There is one remaining quirk which i didn't notice before emailing you the
mini-fix: When booting cold, the spin-up of each drive happens
sequentially and the 5 second retry isn't enough for each drive to get
ready. This wouldn't have been a problem except for the fact that even the
latest version (7.3.13) of the Sil3132 BIOS doesn't bother detecting and
spinning-up anything except the 1st drive on the multiplier. On subsequent
bootups, with drives already spinning, it work right away.
I guess it would be nice to spin-up all drives in rapid succession, and
then retry them all at once every few seconds, but all i did was to
increase the timeout to 15 seconds which works too.
here are the dmesg outputs:
1. warm start, everything ok:
http://www.sjoholm.com/sata/dmesg.warmspin-ok
2. cold start, 5 second timeouts. only 1st drive usable:
http://www.sjoholm.com/sata/dmesg.spinup5-fail
3. cold start, ssleep(15)'s in libata-eh.c, all drives ok:
http://www.sjoholm.com/sata/dmesg.spinup15-ok
fredrik
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
What device do you have with a 3726? I have tried contacting Silicon Image
directly, but they do not know of any products that are *not* external eSATA
enclosures. If anyone knows of these (for sale - not demo boards), I'd like
to hear about it.
Fredrik Sjoholm wrote:
Hello Jeff,
i'm using your libata SATA PMP support with a Sil 3132 chip + 3726 port
multiplier with 5 drives. in order to get it to work, i had to make the
following addition in ata_pm_quirks() [libata-pm.c]
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