To answer a number of questions:
Regarding different controllers, I've tried 2 Syba Sil 3114 controllers
purchased about 4 months apart. I've tried 5.4.3 firmware with one and 5.4.13
with another. Maybe Syba makes crappy Sil 3114 cards but it's the same one
that someone on blogs.sun.com used with success. I had weird problems flashing
the first card I got, hence the order of another one. I'm not sure how I could
get 2 different controllers 4 months apart and then use them in 2 completely
different computers and both controllers be bad.
Regarding cables, they aren't densely packed. I've just got 1 drive attached
in this new instance. In the old, I just had 4 cables unbundled (not bound
together) attached between the card and the drives.
Here's an error on startup in /var/adm/messages, note however that this error
didn't come up on the old mb/cpu combo with the older 3114 hba. These errors
happen only during boot and don't happen during file transfers:
Sep 14 23:51:49 eknas genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd0 is /[EMAIL
PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0
Sep 14 23:52:11 eknas scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /[EMAIL
PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0):
Sep 14 23:52:11 eknas timeout: abort request, target=1 lun=0
Here's the scanpci output:
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x08 function 0x00: vendor 0x1095 device 0x3114
Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller
and prtconf -pv:
subsystem-vendor-id: 00001095
subsystem-id: 00003114
unit-address: '8'
class-code: 00018000
revision-id: 00000002
vendor-id: 00001095
device-id: 00003114
and prtconf -D:
pci-ide, instance #0 (driver name: pci-ide)
ide, instance #0 (driver name: ata)
and pertinent modinfo:
40 fffffffffbbf1250 1050 224 1 pci-ide (pciide nexus driver for 'PCI-ID)
41 fffffffff783c000 10230 112 1 ata (ATA AT-bus attachment disk cont)
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