[CentOS] CentOS 4.4 32 bits not recognizing disks

Wed Apr 4 12:11:40 UTC 2007
chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com>

John Moylan wrote:
> Be careful with the Sil chips, some of them will not support certain 
> HDD's at the HW level. I had a problem with Maxtor DiamondMax10 300GB 
> SATA150 disks. My Sil controller would not support staggered spin up 
> and the drives simply wouldn't power on.
>
> 3Ware are very reliable.

You're definitely preaching to the choir about 3Ware.  :)  Just trying 
to offer an alternative.  I hadn't heard about those types of problems 
with the SiL-based cards.

Cheers,