Can you confirm that only the p50x0sata.device is bootable?
What do you mean by "bootable"? Loading all the Kickstart modules from disk is done by U-Boot and no OS4 SATA driver is involved.
Once OS4 is running, all the SATA drivers for on-board and PCI cards will be usable.
Maybe what DaveyW meant was that you can only boot from the built-in (on-board) SATA. That is correct. U-Boot does not support any PCI devices and cannot read any PCI disks.
Linux is the same: U-Boot has to read the boot disk to boot the system, and since U-Boot can not read any PCI devices, it can't boot Linux (or anything else) from PCI.
I thought a follow-up on this thread would be in place.
Since I have installed the official user release of OS4.1 Final Edition and topped it up with OS4.1 FE Update 2, this card works like a charm! At the time of first starting this thread I was using the developers release of the OS, as I got hold of board back in November 2015.
I now have a HD and an SSD on the 2 SATA ports on the X5000 board and a HD (from my MicroA1 days) and a DVD-RW on the SiI3114 board.
There's just that little caveat that all partitions on the MicroA1-HD are either SFS/0 or JXF/4 and both types of partitions fail to mount. Also the X5000-HD contains a whole slew of partitions of SFS/2 which also fail to mount. And even the SSD has some SFS/2 partitions and they too fail to mount. But hey, I've ordered a light (and therefore cheap: I'm Dutch, you know...) version of the EnhencerPack containing the latest version of the SFS-filesystem and I hope it will drop in my letterbox one of these days.
Time will tell, whether it works, but I retain high hopes! The SiI3114 card forms no problem anymore.
Thanks for all your contributions and suggestions.
OldFart
X5000, appears to be sick. Dismantled jan 1, 2024.
Dead MicroA1
A1200 in ElBox, c/w Blizzard '040 @ 50MHz + SCSI module, ZIV-board c/w (o.a.) cv64/3d + flickerdoubler + FastATA-ZIV + Lots of SCSI gear, sitting idle.
RaspBerry Pi 2B, 3B, 4B/4Gb, 4B/8Gb
OrangePi 5+ 8Gb
ACER Windows 10
I Personally have a 4Tb SSD with NGFS on my Sil3114 card I portioned it into 4 partions since that should be sufficient with ~1Tb for every partion (I actually have 2 sil3114 cards one 4 port and one 10 port card. Will probably install a 'old' blu-ray burner (either replace the dvd-burner or separately on the 4 porter).
from Conrad, AFAIK its a german net retailer, and it's their 'housebrand' which made/make the 10 porter (I have seen it under some other brands, at least it looks identical). it seem's to use 2 sil3114 chips (no guarantee).