Hallo, i hope I am here at the right address. I am using a Silicon Image 3124 SATA-Controller with the Silicon Image 4726 pm / hardware-RAID product, using the sata_sil24 driver. The pm is also a hardware raid-controller (not SATARAID - fake, see docs on http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=74). For the configuration of hardware raid, you can download a software from the sii website (SiI4726 Manager). But this software only seems to work with the precompiled proprietary drivers from sii (e.g. sii3124.ko), i think there are unimplemented specific commands in the sil_sata(24) drivers. Isn't it possible to make a opensource way to configure the hardware raid controller or make the sil_sata(24) driver be usable with the sii's RAID manager? (If the hardware would be needed therefor i could provide) The binary drivers from sii for their controllers are unfortunately only available for a very low number of kernels (e.g. suse enterprise, RHEL kernels, see http://www.siliconimage.com/support/supportsearchresults.aspx?pid=27&cid=3&ctid=2&osid=1&;). I don't know whom to contact at sii to get specifications or (more improbably) a suiting driver... Nor am I an kernel programmer... I only know following: -for the configuration a "config disk" is provided by the pm (hwinfo is below) -the sii configuration manager recognizes all SATA-disks, but doesn't detect serial numbers or the config disk. Thanks for advice and help, Paul Neuwirth hwinfo [disk] IDE 250.0: 10600 Disk [Created at block.233] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SATA_Config_Disk_0000000_0703517__5_0 Unique ID: by2M.OswvJFVubC7 Parent ID: qnJ_.+pLfg7up4B3 SysFS ID: /block/sde SysFS BusID: 2:5:0:0 SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0/host2/target2:5:0/2:5:0:0 Hardware Class: disk Model: "Config Disk" Vendor: "Config" Device: "Disk" Revision: "PLS1" Serial ID: "0000000_0703517__5_0" Driver: "sata_sil24", "sd" Driver Modules: "sata_sil24" Device File: /dev/sde Device Files: /dev/sde, /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Config_Disk_0000000_0703517__5_0, /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Config_Disk_0000000_0703517__5_0, /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:0d.0-scsi-2:5:0:0 Device Number: block 8:64-8:79 Geometry (Logical): CHS 0/255/63 Size: 640 sectors a 512 bytes Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #7 (RAID bus controller) [pci] PCI 0d.0: 0104 RAID bus controller [Created at pci.301] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1095_3124 Unique ID: qnJ_.+pLfg7up4B3 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:0d.0 Hardware Class: storage Model: "Silicon Image SiI 3124 PCI-X Serial ATA Controller" Vendor: pci 0x1095 "Silicon Image, Inc." Device: pci 0x3124 "SiI 3124 PCI-X Serial ATA Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x1095 "Silicon Image, Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x6124 Revision: 0x02 Driver: "sata_sil24" Driver Modules: "sata_sil24" Memory Range: 0xeb008000-0xeb00807f (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xeb000000-0xeb007fff (rw,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0xb000-0xb00f (rw) Memory Range: 0x40000000-0x4007ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 16 (6136 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00001095d00003124sv00001095sd00006124bc01sc04i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: sata_sil24 is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe sata_sil24" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown -- Teraz mamy jeszcze lepszy sposób by upewniæ siê, ¿e jeden uszkodzony plik z danymi rozprzestrzeni siê na ca³± sieæ: nazywamy go OLE 2.0. --- Bill Gates (mia³ powiedzieæ)
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