[Wlug] SATA chipset Sil 3132

[Eric Stein]

I figured this exact solution out before I went to dinner, but I hadn't 
gotten around to emailing it out yet. Here's the link I got the info from:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=42a7ff7f4422b32a307e47541584e912&t=429066

See edM's second post. Thanks for your help, though! My RAID is now 
building for the first time!

glamdring proc # cat mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sde[4] sdd[2] sdc[1] sdb[0]
1172133888 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [UUU_]
[=============>.......] recovery = 69.1% (270093056/390711296) 
finish=34.2min speed=58640K/sec

unused devices: <none>

Eric

Jamie Guinan wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Eric Stein wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've recently acquired some more hard drives and I just plugged one in 
>> to the secondary SATA ports on my motherboard for the first time.  
>> However, my Gentoo box isn't  seeing it.  I have an Abit AN8-32X 
>> motherboard (the other drives are on the Nvidia SATAII controller).  For 
>> info about the board, go here:
>>
>> http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/an8-32x/
>>
>> In make menuconfig (from the kernel I am running right now (2.6.18)):
>> <*>         Silicon Image chipset support
>>     
>
> I'm have 2.6.19 handy, and I see,
>
>   Device Drivers  ---> 
>     ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support  ---> 
>       < >         Silicon Image chipset support   
>
> but also,
>
>   Device Drivers  --->
>     Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers  --->   
>       < >   Silicon Image SATA support                                                 
>       < >   Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support           
>
> I think the latter is what you might need.  Its the new libata...
> reworked IDE... thingy.  I haven't followed it that closely, but this
> link might be of interest,
>
>   http://lwn.net/Articles/198344/
>
> -Jamie
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