From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Port Multiplier access with Sil 3124 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:12:22 +0900 Message-ID: <49923406.60501@kernel.org> References: <498F42B6.8030607@tlinx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:58044 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750920AbZBKCMd (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:12:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <498F42B6.8030607@tlinx.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Linda Walsh Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Linda Walsh wrote: > It seems there should be a linux util to manage the "container", > 'sil57xx' -- I take it is not used for RAID-only config? sil57xx should generally work fine as PMP device. There has been some detection related problem with recent firmwares which isn't fixed yet but it should generally work. The hardest part is to put the chip into vanilla PMP mode. The reference board I have has this rotary switch and I need to put it into JBOD mode and press another small mode-set switch to actually make the transition. Can you post kernel boot log? -- tejun