CentOS - Dec 2005 - Seagate NCQ + Sil3112 (sata_sil)

All,

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?

Regards,

Peter

Peter Kitchener wrote:
> All,
> 
> 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?
> 
Seagate and Silicon Image are a not very well known disaster combination 
due to unclear specificitions which led to varying implementations.

The only idea possible is get another card or another brand of disk.

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.

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.
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