[CentOS] Seagate NCQ + Sil3112 (sata_sil)

Peter Kitchener wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have a problem with a new Seagate hard disk. The problem occurs when i 
> go to install CentOS, i insert the cd and start the boot up process, 
> when it gets to the section where it detects the hard disks, the driver 
> is seems crashes, the message it produces complains about no one caring 
> about a interrupt on IRQ11. The hard disk is a Seagate 200GB 8MB SATA150 
> NCQ drive, on a SilliconImage 3112 PCI adapter card. Does anyone have 
> any ideas?
> 

Seagate and Silicon Image are a not very well known disaster combination 
due to unclear specificitions which led to varying implementations.

The only idea possible is get another card or another brand of disk.