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09-28-2005

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what i found

Serial ATA (SATA) chipsets - Linux support status

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

Problem: Serial ATA (also known as S-ATA or SATA) chipsets are rapidly replacing legacy "parallel ATA" (PATA, i.e., regular ATA/133) chipsets - but many Linux installers' kernels don't yet support many Serial ATA chipsets. If yours isn't supported, you have an installation obstacle. SUSE Linux 9.3 and later's installation kernel, Fedora Core 3 and later's, CentOS 4.1 and later's, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and later, Gentoo Linux 2004.3 and later's, Knoppix 3.7 and later's, Debian 3.1/sarge and later's (especially when started with the "bf2.6 boot flavour" boot image), Slackware 10.2 w/test26.s boot option, Xandros Desktop OS 3.0 and later's, Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) Linux 5.04 "hoary hedgehog" and later's, Vector Linux 5.1 and later's, Libranet 3.0 and later's, MEPIS Linux 3.3.1 and later's, Kanotix 2005-03 and later's, Linspire 5.0 and later's, PCLinux OS preview .81 and later's, ArkLinux's, and Mandriva Linux 2005 and later's all have a good selection of the required drivers. Scott Kveton's Debian netinst image does, likewise - see Links/Resources.

Note: There is no such thing as a distribution or its installer (generically) "having SATA support" (or not). Please send anyone speaking in such terms to this page. (Some SATA chipsets have been supported since practically forever, as their programming interfaces are unchanged from PATA predecessors. Others are brand-new and require new drivers from scratch.)

There are three workaround options:

1. Switch the motherboard BIOS back to "legacy ATA mode" (parallel ATA = PATA). Complete a Linux installation. Fetch or build a kernel with support for your chipset. Switch the BIOS setting back. (Potential catch: It's claimed that Dell Optiplex GX270 and Dell Precision Workstation 360 desktop units, using Intel ICH5 SATA-I chipsets, don't support switching to legacy ATA mode. This might be true of some others.)

2. Rebuild your installer using kernel 2.4.27 or later, which includes libata, desirable since it adds many new chipsets and gives a (potential, subject to physical read limits, etc.) ~10M/s speed boost to some others compared to the quite slow 2.4.x drivers/ide set.

3. Temporarily add a regular PATA drive to your system. Install Linux onto that. Fetch or build a kernel with support for your chipset. Migrate your system to the SATA drives.

now if i was working with linux or unix before maybe i'd understand some of that nonesence, but fact is, i never used it so i cant make my own kernel, nor do i know what a PATA is, and that legacy does not work

any OTHER bright ideas?

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siis

SIIS(4) 						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						   SIIS(4)

NAME

     siis -- SiliconImage Serial ATA Host Controller driver

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   device pci
	   device scbus
	   device siis

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   siis_load="YES"

     The following tunables are settable from the loader(8):

     hint.siis.X.msi
     controls Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) usage by the specified controller.

     hint.siisch.X.pm_level
     controls SATA interface Power Management for the specified channel, allowing some power to be saved at the cost of additional command
     latency.  Possible values:
     0		   interface Power Management is disabled (default);
     1		   device is allowed to initiate PM state change, host is passive.
     Note that interface Power Management is not compatible with device presence detection.  A manual bus reset is needed on device hot-plug.

     hint.siisch.X.sata_rev
     setting to nonzero value limits maximum SATA revision (speed).  Values 1, 2 and 3 are respectively 1.5, 3 and 6Gbps.

DESCRIPTION

     This driver provides the CAM(4) subsystem with native access to the SATA ports of controller.  Each SATA port is represented to CAM as a sep-
     arate bus with 16 targets.  Most of the bus-management details are handled by the SATA-specific transport of CAM.	Connected ATA disks are
     handled by the ATA protocol disk peripheral driver ada(4).  ATAPI devices are handled by the SCSI protocol peripheral drivers cd(4), da(4),
     sa(4), etc.

     Driver features include support for Serial ATA and ATAPI devices, Port Multipliers (including FIS-based switching), hardware command queues
     (31 command per port), Native Command Queuing, SATA interface Power Management, device hot-plug and Message Signaled Interrupts.

     Same hardware is also supported by the atasiliconimage driver from ata(4) subsystem.  If both drivers are loaded at the same time, this one
     will be given precedence as the more functional of the two.

HARDWARE

     The siis driver supports the following controllers:
     o	 SiI3124
     o	 SiI3132
     o	 SiI3531

SEE ALSO

     ada(4), ata(4), cam(4), cd(4), da(4), sa(4)

HISTORY

     The siis driver first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.

AUTHORS

     Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>.

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