sil 3114 seagate problem
<http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,586,00.html>Hi,
I'm having problems with a group of ST3120026AS drives (not currently in the list) which unfortunately are mated with a 3114 controller on a Tyan motherboard. Trying to resolve a problem installing Fedora Core2 or Suse 9.1 eventually led me to the kernel mailing list which has indicated that a) there is a problem and b) the fix degrades performance.
Can you tell me if the problems with the 3114 are restricted to Seagate drives, and everything will be rosy if I get (for example) 4 x Western Digital 120G drives instead? I'm a little confused about the nature of the issue/bug but I'll be happy just to get a working server at this stage.
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask but references to this problem are rare.
Thanks,
Bradley.
Quoted 6 lines · Bradley Tate
<http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,586,00.html>Hi,
I'm having problems with a group of ST3120026AS drives (not currently in the list) which unfortunately are mated with a 3114 controller on a Tyan motherboard. Trying to resolve a problem installing Fedora Core2 or Suse 9.1 eventually led me to the kernel mailing list which has indicated that a) there is a problem and b) the fix degrades performance.
Can you tell me if the problems with the 3114 are restricted to Seagate drives, and everything will be rosy if I get (for example) 4 x Western Digital 120G drives instead? I'm a little confused about the nature of the issue/bug but I'll be happy just to get a working server at this stage.
The problems with Silicon Image 311x appear to be limited to Seagate drives.
Jeff