Sil3124

[mchiao]

Hi!

I'm trying to setup FreeNAS 8 with a Syba SIL-3124 4 port sata II PCI/X card on a MSI Neo4 AMD 939 system with 4GB memory.

Currently, I have 6 Samsung FD204UI 2TB attached. 4 is attached to the mobo's sata and the remaining 2 is attached to Syba's SIL-3124.

During the boot process, I get messages similar to the following: (I don't have access to the system at the moment, but thanks to internet, I was able to find something)

fs1 kernel: siisch2: siis_timeout is 00040000 ss 40000000 rs 40000000 es 00000000 sts 801e0000 serr 00000000
fs1 kernel: siisch2: Timeout on slot 30
fs1 kernel: siisch2: siis_timeout is 00040000 ss 40000000 rs 40000000 es 00000000 sts 801e0000 serr 00000000
fs1 kernel: siisch2: Timeout on slot 30

fs1 kernel: siis0: <SiI3124 SATA controller> port 0xecf0-0xecff mem 0xfe7ffc00-0xfe7ffc7f,0xfe7f0000-0xfe7f7fff irq 37 at
device 11.0 on pci3
fs1 kernel: siis0: [ITHREAD]
fs1 kernel: siisch0: <SIIS channel> at channel 0 on siis0
fs1 kernel: siisch0: [ITHREAD]
fs1 kernel: siisch1: <SIIS channel> at channel 1 on siis0
fs1 kernel: siisch1: [ITHREAD]


Once FreeNAS boots up, I only see 4 drives.

One thing I'm thinking about doing is upgrade the SIL-3124's firmware.

Another interesting tidbit is if I boot up with FreeNAS 7, I will only see 5. I see both drives attached to the SIL-3124 but only 3 out of 4 drives that is attached to the motherboard's SATA.

Any idea/suggestions?

Thanks

 

[matthewowen01]

mistook 1 card for another card. my 3124 works fine.

 

[esamett]

I am running a sil3124 card on a PCI bus without problems with FN8.0. However the Hitachi disk checking utility can't see it. LOL.

 

[matthewowen01]

Mine's a PCI-e version,

 

[mchiao]

I'm beginning to think it might be a firmware issue. I have another sil3124 (firmware 6.4.09) card. I tried that card in a biostart a770e3 with just 1 drive (hitachi 2tb, FK3000) attached to the card and no other drives attach to the mobo's sata.

I was able to see the drive. I'm gonna try with a drive attached to mobo's sata and see if it makes a difference... It shouldn't but...

However, I wont be able to try this card on my Neo4 until July... Hopefully, an updated firmware sil-3124 will work...