In short: First I went 100% scsi (except for / on hda) with sata_sil and sata_via. This made my computer halt when I activated my second network card (8139 + via-rhine or another 8139). Then I went 100% ide with the via82cxxx and siimage drivers, which made the network cards work. Disks on the VIA interface worked fine for simple file systems but failed when used for Raid. Disks on the Silicon Image interface failed both. It even got badblocks from the Ext2 suite to report tons of failures. Smartmontools has no complaints, so the disks as such are ok.
I definitely recommend IDE siimage driver for Silicon Image SATA (though I will announce when my driver is fixed).
For VIA SATA, neither IDE nor libata program the chipset 100%, so I'm not surprised you're seeing failures. I'm working with VIA to get more details as we speak. They've been helpful so far. I would recommend sata_via over the generic IDE driver, but that's sorta a toss-up at present.
Jeff
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