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

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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.
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DAT Optic eSATA_PCIe8 4-Port PCIe Host Adapter $189
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NORCO-4629 4-Port PCIe SATA Host Adapter $189
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