[cc'ing linux-ide]

Timur Tabi wrote:

I'm working on a new PowerPC board (8349 based) with a Silicon Image 
3114 SATA controller
connected to a Hitachi drive.  When the sata_sil driver loads and tries 
to find the device,
I get "qc timeout" errors.  I don't know a lot about SATA.  Can anyone 
give me a clue as
to what could be wrong?

Several questions.

1. does any previous kernel version work?  say, 2.6.17?
2. can your ppc board do byte-aligned mmio access?
3. it could be irq routing problem.  can you verify that?

-- 
tejun