Yesterday, I was digging around for a quick SATA controller to get a new 500GB disk online. The requirement was short term so I jumped on a $40CAD SIIG SATA-II controller at the computer shop (OTA) next to my office. The cheapest option for $30CAD was a SATA-I SiG Chipset, but $10CAD more for the SATA-II/NCQ capability seemed ok, and I was anxious after having no luck with the $15CAD HW-629 IDE-SATA adapter. For all the time consumed so far, I would have been happy to just pay $60CAD for a high-end Promise controller. The sticker on the SIIG chipset was the first sign of trouble. A couple of old threads suggesting no Linux support for Initio Corporation 1622/1623 devices (as discovered by lspci) confirmed the worst. Then, I found this new thread discussing recent linux support. There may be hope yet for anyone else with one of these Initio 162x SATA controllers mad by Sunix, SIIG and others.
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June 14th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Hello Mr iMac … I bought a 320 GB S-ATA II hardrive and an Inic 1623 TA2 and i can do some operation on it under linux like create my partition table and read but i can’t write many file and then the acces to the disk is totaly broken. i have to reboot my computer. does your computer act like mine or all is okay. I have tested my hard disk on the OS of “you know who” and it seems to have no problem. I’m using a 2.6.22-rc4-git4 kernel on an Gentoo system. did your system work correctly ? and so why ?