Sata controllers: silicon image 3112a chipset

i've just tried to install solaris 10 on a box with a Silicon Image 3112a PCI SATA adapter and encountered what seems to be (based on googling on the topic) a common problem: this adapter is unsupported under solaris 10 and you encounter a "no disk found" error once solaris tries to install to the hard disk.
during the install, i hit ESC to stop the autoboot and i did a full scan of the attached hardware. the silicon image 3112a comes up as a PCI device, making me think that it might be supported. is there any truth to this suspicion?
one thing i found to be particularly odd about this SATA controller not working is that, according to the disk controller support list for x86 hardware, there exist 2 cards (see http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/components/details/801.html and http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/components/details/803.html) that use the same chipset (silicon image 3112a) as this device that is purportedly unsupported. i'm pretty familiar with linux and openbsd, so i find it odd that cards with the same chipset can have differential support levels like this.
in this vein, can someone assure me that these "supported" SATA controllers referenced above will work with solaris 10?
i can post more detailed info upon request. thx for reading.

According to the /boot/solaris/devicedb/master file, Solaris 10
recognizes the following IDE controllers:
pciclass,0101 pci-ide msd pciclass ata.bef "IDE controller"
pci1095,3112 pci-ide msd pci ata.bef "Silicon Image 3112 SATA Controller"
pci1095,3114 pci-ide msd pci ata.bef "Silicon Image 3114 SATA Controller"
pci1095,3512 pci-ide msd pci ata.bef "Silicon Image 3512 SATA Controller"The first line is a generic catch-all for (PATA) PCI-IDE controllers.
The remaining three lines seem to add support for 3 different
SATA devices from Silicon Image, identified by a PCI vendor id
of 1095, and PCI device ids 3112, 3114 or 3512.
If you hit ESC and check the list of installed hardware, what
exactly is listed for the SATA controller?
Does it list any of the three device ids 3112, 3114 or 3512?
Does it list a generic description ("PCI Mass storage device")?
Or does is specifically list one of the descriptions strings from the
above except from the master file (e.g. "Silicon Image 3112 SATA
Controller")?

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Sata: silicon image 3112a

how install solaris 10 on box with this chipset?
i`ve error not disk found, but full scan recognizes this chipset

According to the /boot/solaris/devicedb/master file, Solaris 10
recognizes the following IDE controllers:
pciclass,0101 pci-ide msd pciclass ata.bef "IDE controller"
pci1095,3112 pci-ide msd pci ata.bef "Silicon Image 3112 SATA Controller"
pci1095,3114 pci-ide msd pci ata.bef "Silicon Image 3114 SATA Controller"
pci1095,3512 pci-ide msd pci ata.bef "Silicon Image 3512 SATA Controller"The first line is a generic catch-all for (PATA) PCI-IDE controllers.
The remaining three lines seem to add support for 3 different
SATA devices from Silicon Image, identified by a PCI vendor id
of 1095, and PCI device ids 3112, 3114 or 3512.
If you hit ESC and check the list of installed hardware, what
exactly is listed for the SATA controller?
Does it list any of the three device ids 3112, 3114 or 3512?
Does it list a generic description ("PCI Mass storage device")?
Or does is specifically list one of the descriptions strings from the
above except from the master file (e.g. "Silicon Image 3112 SATA
Controller")?

Silicon image sil 3112 and seagate 200GB sata

hey everyone..
im trying hard to get dma activated on my sata drive..i dont need raid(and cant have it..only one sata drive ...but hdparm -tT shows slower performance on the sata drive
/dev/sda = sata
/dev/hda = pata
/dev/sda
hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1008 MB in 2.01 seconds = 502.32 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Timing buffered disk reads: 58 MB in 3.05 seconds = 19.04 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
hdparm /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 24321/255/63, sectors = 390721968, start = 0
hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
the results for the pata drive are
/dev/hda
hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 996 MB in 2.00 seconds = 497.58 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 120 MB in 3.00 seconds = 39.97 MB/sec
im able to enable dma/set Xfer mode/IO/ only in the pata drive, not in the sata drive..in kernel config ive enabled "scsi low-level->sata support->silicon image sata support" and also enabled "silicon image chipset support under ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support"
im right now using sata as root and the drive is stable..just need dma..thanks in advance

According to Jeff Garzik's sata pages the drivers for the Sil 311x chipsets have beta status.
I had worse luck with my no-name PCI Sil-SATA controllers: as soon as I connected a hard disk the kernel would not boot anymore when using libata drivers. I can only use the allegedly deprecated IDE drivers, these work fine for me.
The libata drivers should set the proper DMA modes automatically, but things are slightly different with SATA. Anyways, 20MB/s is proof enough that some sort of DMA is actually there. Performance would be much worse without any DMA at all.
If you really want to use the libata driver you should try a 2.6.12rc kernel, libata has seen quite a many updates since 2.6.11
Cheers,
Dominik

Diamond Plus- Silicon Image controller set up single SATA 2 non raid "HELP"

Could somebody please tell me what drivers exactly do you have to load for Windows install off of the floppy? I loaded the silcon image 32 drivers at the install but the boot into windows takes a long time ! In bios SATA 1 SATA 2 are enabled -non raid for Silicon Image controller. Is their any kind of special procedure or trick for for useing the the controller non raid mode? Just added another HDD to my system formatted first with WD Lifeguard Tools and unhooked my othet drives and 1 of my dvd burners but for some reason It took like 2hrs 20 min too load windows when I specified additional drives their wer like 4-5 to choose from and the only non raid refference 1 was the first which I belive silicon image sys32 do you have to install all of them like the nvidea ones? man I had absolutely no problems setting up my 2- 80gb WD Caviars in raid 0 but the new 250gb WD caviar se16 is another story. ALL ARE SATA 2 DRIVES so I know that SATA 2 works on my board im useing it right now! Could any of the lLocal Forum Gurus with prior experience with the controller tell me exactly how to configure the set up NON RAID! PLLLLLLEASE.........
Thanks in advance

Thanks for all of you help Bas, and the quick responce! I was asking about which would be the prefered set up raid 0 on silicon image and sigle drive non raid on port 3-4 Nvidea or vice versa. I'm sure that it is a matter of prefference, but I do plan to overclock slightly when it cools down and I have done more reading on it! My primary goal is Stabilily and performance in harmonic balance whith out data corruption, or risking blowing things up! Any way hows life in Belgium? I have yet to travel to Europe, traveled to just about all of the states and lived on 2 of the Hawaiian Islands. So as you can tell Bas I am more partial to warm weather. I am quite a bit more in tuned with European culture than most people. My folks are from Australia and New Zealand so i'm not youre typical American! Shoot's Bro thanks for all of youre help and have a good weekend!!
Campbell

K8N Diamond Silicon Image SATA problem

Hi everyone,
I have a problem with my Silicon Image controller,
when I installed WinXP and tried to install drivers for the
Silicon Image controller (in SATA mode) it don't exept
Silicon Image SiI 3132 SATALink Driver 1.0.0.9.
The only drivers Win exept is RAID drivers. But then I can't use them because
I dont use RAID array.
I have tried to update the BIOS without any luck.
Is it the MB thats is broken or is it Win that has f***ed up?
My specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
MSI K8N Diamond
4x Kingston HyperX 512MB DDR PC4000 CL3 (3-4-4-8-1)
HIS Radeon X850XT PE 256MB VIVO
1x WD Raptor 36GB 10000RPM
1x Maxtor DiaMax Plus9 120GB
1x Maxtor DiaMax Plus10 300GB
1x WD Caviar SE 250GB
3x Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250GB
(all SATA HDD)
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Audigy 4 Pro
Plextor PX-716A DVD-R/RW/DL
Windows XP SP2
Zalman Reserator 1

On K8N Diamond the Sil3132 is a Raid5 controller. You can only install Raid5 driver (SataLink and SataRaid drivers don't work, only SataRaid5).
Use the latest driver version 1.2.3.1. You can download it from MSI.
If you don't use Raid, then you must go into the Silicon Image bios setup utility (CTRL+S or F4, when displayed) and set for each drive a JBOD array (Create Array -> JBOD).
(On newer bios JBOD has changed to CONCATENATION.)

Disable Silicon Image SATA Driver

I just installed a SATARAID5 Silicon Image driver for my RAID 0, and whenever I start up my pc, the SATARAID5 Array Manager Pops up. Is it ok to disable this from my startup menu so it doesn't pop up every time I start up my pc?

yes

Ms-7220 NVRAID and Silicon Image driver installation.

Anybody know how to install the nVidia RAID Controller Software and drivers after Windows is up and running, same with Silicon Image for RAID and Non-Raid Controller Functions.
The only installation instructions for NVRAID installation is during Windows installation as Boot Device. Silicon Image installation instruction, errors out when you give it the directory of the Silicon Image drivers stating they are not for your hardware configuration, but the file are the current MSI download for 64 Bit Silicon Image drivers.
Have this problem on two Ms-7720's one is the one in my signature and the other is about the same configuration, but parts may be by different manufactures.
nVidia SATA ports all work with single drives, Silicon Image does not work with any drives or are any drives detected by BIOS on Silicon Image controller, and both systems are the same.
Roger
When submitting a problem, include a complete list of your system components; include part numbers, all Power Supply Voltages, and their output ratings. It is almost impossible to estimate what your problem is without knowing something about it.

Uninstalled all nVidia On board device drivers and software, then reinstalled and all of the above problems are gone.
In addition, found out that if you disable all on board nVidia devices and use only the basic Northbridge and Southbridge functions the MS-7220 is one solid running system. Standard IDE/SATA device controllers is stable, everything else I tried that is nVidia Chipset hardware or nVidia software driven, uninstall and/or disable. PassMark's Burn-In program runs with out errors only when the nVidia Chipset Primary functions are used. Does not seam to be any instability problem with on board devices connected through the Chipset, I have been able to find.
syar2003, the unknown devices program found no unknown device and through it and other DMI diagnostic programs found that DMI did not have this unknown device listed, so the problem was Windows registry bogus entry, which was cleared when I uninstalled all nVidia Chipset Software and drivers. Thanks for the link, though looks like a useful tool to have.
Therefore, looks like the problem was a Windows registry entry, caused all the enabling, disabling, installing and reinstalling of devices and software to do all the testing I have be doing on the MS-7220. The nVidia Raid Controller is really a dog in stability, performance, data corruption and ease of setup and use, but I do not think that will surprise anyone.
Roger
When submitting a problem, include a complete list of your system components; include part numbers, all Power Supply Voltages, and their output ratings. It is almost impossible to estimate what your problem is without knowing something about it.

Silicon Image SIL3114

I am using an older SIL3114 raid card but WTP 9926 as well as previous version failed to display the information pertaining to the raid card itself. Under Control Panel -> Device Manager -> Storage controllers, it displays the devices connected
to the card fine, but the Control Panel -> Silicon Image SATA Controllers does not indicate any information about this card at all.
Is the "Silicon Image SATA Controllers" in the Control Panel supposed to reflect the same information as the Device Manger?
No issues if not as I intend on replacing this soon, but if it supposed to I would recommend that it be looked into.

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:45:03 +0000, JohnnyBoy1998 wrote:
Is the "Silicon Image SATA Controllers" in the Control Panel supposed to reflect the same information as the Device Manger?
That icon in Control Panel is provided by SIL and is placed there when you
install their software, as such, you should really be reporting this
problem to them.
Have you tried either installing updated SIL software or removing and then
reinstalling the current version?
Paul Adare - FIM CM MVP
W2k: Why Y2k won't be remembered as the worst disaster in computing history
-- Chris Adams about Windows 2000

K8D-Master and Highpoint SATA controllers

Has anyone been able to get a K8D-Master to boot from a Highpoint SATA controller?
I've tried 2 cards - the 1520 and the 1542 - both without much success.
Both cards are recognised in OS setup, but when it comes to boot, I just get the BIOS message saying "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" (interesting use of capitals!). This happens regardless of whether I've got the disks RAIDed or not.
The 1520 is all fine in the K8D-Master's BIOS boot section, but when you try to enter setup with a 1542 plugged it, it puts "WAIT" in the middle of the screen and freezes. Neither card it seems is capable of actually booting the machine - however both cards work perfectly in other boxes.
A Silicon Image (sil3112) controller works fine, however there is no support for its RAID functionality in FreeBSD and I'd rather not send this box packing without mirrored disks.
Any help in the matter would be greatly appreciated.

ok never heard of it before
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=441
are you setting scsi second in boot order to cdrom
have you defined the array in the raid cards bios
have you hit f6 as xp install starts and feed in raid drivers
other than that it sounds like a bios issue your best emailing msi about
we dont get that many server board users in here

Boot from Silicon Image 3114

Is it possible to boot from a SATA DVD Drive (Plextor 716SA) using the Silicon Image SATA ports (5-8) rather than the nVidia ones (1-4)?
I tried it, and the drive/port does appear in the boot menu and I can select it. For some reason, it doesn't even boot from it. Is it supposed to work? Did someone else get it to work?
Thanks

Silicon Image SiI3114

I am trying to build a SATA RAID server using the Silicon Image SiI3114 SATA RAID HBA, consisting of two Hitachi 250 GB 7.2krpm PATA drives.
The BIOS on the controller recognizes the drive, and if I interrupt autoboot, it detects the controller along with the independent drives.
However, it does not recognize it to be able to install Solaris 10 (any release from 3/05 to 6/06 beta).
It appears as though this is a recurring problem with Solaris, and if I can't get it it to work properly, I will have to switch to another OS.
I have the drives currently in RAID0 configuration, and haven't tried JBOD.
If there are any suggestions, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Well my good gentlemen, I think between all of us, we may have, (as hatter put it), finally stumbled upon something. I always suspected the Hardware developers. Especially when you get 'cookie cutter' replies. It started with FirmTek and their mistrust toward an educated consumer's inquiries.
Then after pressing Tech Support with Sansdigital on their forum, it took repetitive questions to finally get them to admit their PCIe card was ONLY tested in '10.4.10'
The information online, or on the packaging? Take your pick, it's basically all inconclusive, or in my opinion, 'unproven'. I think business trends are such that a product is tested for the 'majority of users', who in this case probably already went to 10.5
My feeling is that OWC may not be aware of the Silicon Image issue as well. But perhaps I'll wait until I get the Lycom card and try it first before I reformat for a 3rd time.
Thank you all
Mike

Silicon Image 3132 BIOS update

Hi all
I have a K8N Diamond mobo (latest BIOS) and want to update the BIOS of the Silicon Image 3132 SATA/RAID controller. This is in the vain attempt it will solve my Plextor 716SA problems.
I have downloaded the latest BIOS from the Silicon Image website but dont hpw to use it.
Can anyone give me a noobs guide to Silicon Image BIOS flashing?
cheers guys

It 's possible to include/replace the SIL 3132 pci rom in the MSI Diamond bios with the
newest one from here :
http://www.siliconimage.com/support/downloadresults.aspx?pid=32&bios=1&drivers=0&sataraid=0&
2'nd download and the 7223.bin in that archive .
Current MSI bios 1.7 for diamond has the 7218 SIL embedded bios version .

Hangs when installing amd and silicon image drivers

last night installed multipoint server 2012 premium evaluation to a 32GB ssd.
all went well.
then attempted to install amd graphics drivers for hd4850/hd6310 and also drivers for silicon image 3114 pci sata card.
both installers hang part way into installation despite multiple attempts and reboots.
even leaving pc over night failed to resolve hanging.
please advise of work around.
mainboard is asus e35m1-m pro.
objective is working fileserver/multiseat websurfer.
thanks and please have a great day/week/life

Are those devices supported by Windows 2012 or are you installing drivers for an older version of Windows? If those drivers are for older versions of Windows, that might cause the problem. Have you checked with the manufacturer of those devices for known
issues?

Help with installing Arch x64 to Silicon Image SiI 0680 raid card

I am having one heck of a time trying to find information on installing Arch on a Silicon Image SiI 0680 raid card. I have searched both the wiki and the forums and I cannot find any information about this card. I am trying to install a raid 0 setup on Arch x64 Could someone point me in the right direction, any help is appreciated. Thank you.
Information about the card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6816132004

My memory has slipped a bit: the following is more to the point than my reference to md=0!
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Re: [SOLVED] usb /boot, RAID5 /root, mkinitcpio.conf help request
The array stabalized and I was able to reboot with the following entry in my menu.lst:
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/md0 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md2 : active raid5 sdi1[0] sdg1[3] sdh1[2] sdk1[1]
2197715712 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
md1 : active raid5 sda3[0] sdf3[5] sde3[4] sdc3[3] sdd3[2] sdb3[1]
7252222400 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]
md0 : active raid5 sda2[0] sde2[5] sdf2[4] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
52451840 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]
Thank you very much to everyone in this thread. I really appreciate the help.
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How to retrieve data from Silicon Image striped disks on NVRAID?

Hello,
I used to have MSI K8N Diamond motherboard and had to claim it. They returned to
me MSI K8N SLI Platinum saying they couldn't get K8n Diamond anymore. However, K8N SLI Platinum doesn't have a Silicon Image 3132 RAID Controller I had used for my striped disks, so I'm trying to use NVRAID. NVRAID config says RAID status is OK (healthy),
but I cannot see any data on the RAID disk in Windows XP (it says the disk is not formatted). Can anybody help me with this problem? If the two RAIDs (Silicon X NVRAID) use different formats for writing data onto disks, is there any utility I could use to retreive my unavailable data from the disks, that used to be in Silicon Image RIAD?
Thank you very much for your time.

This is the problem with 2 threads that don't get merged, someone needs to merge these.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=100574.0
Since this seems to be the more popular of the 2 I will repost below what I said in the other thread. Personally I would try the destriper before attempting what Hans suggest as it is destuctive(not saying it won't work just saying it will write metadata to the drives, and any writing at this point can have bad consequences).
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So the NVRAID see the 2 drives as a striped set? This is suprising. You could try to run a data recovery tool like getdataback and see if it sees anything on this new NVRAID array. But other then that your only chance to recover without using the above suggestion(get access to another SiImage which is probably the easiest)
is try a software destriper. Here is an example: http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm
The destripers are only as good as their authors write them, they have to know where for example where SiImage puts the metadata, it sounds like this software will try all combinations it knows(non-destructive),but can possibly recover data in your situation. You may even have to use a data recovery tool after the destriping depending on where you are at now.
Whatever you do, don't go configuring anything as any writing to the disk could make data hard if not impossible to get back.
I think it's easier to get another controller but in theory a de-striper will do it. Good luck I'm curious to see how things work out.

Sata controllers: silicon image 3112a chipset

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