sii3114ide.device (solved)

[tonyw]

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.

[Amiguy]

Thank you my friend, you answered my question.

[daveyw]

Maybe what DaveyW meant was that you can only boot from the built-in (on-board) SATA. That is correct.

Yes, that's what I was referring to.

[Skateman]

I boot linux from a ASmedia PCIx1 controller in my X5000

Uboot and Linux kernel are both on my SDcard.

[OldFart]

Hi,

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

[trgswe]

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).

[OldFart]

@trgswe

I actually have 2 sil3114 cards one 4 port and one 10 port card.

Where the heck did you get that 10-port card from? Just out of curiosity.

OldFart

[trgswe]

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).