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Storage controllers

Silicon Image SiI3112 family

This older Silicon Image SATA controller uses sata_sil rather than ahci. Its source path is useful when a legacy add-in card appears correctly on PCI but no attached ATA device is visible.

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  1. Overview & identity
  2. Driver & binding
  3. Firmware
  4. Read-only diagnostics
  5. Limitations & related issues
  6. References

Overview & identity

1095:3112 is the sil_3112 table entry; the kernel vendor macro is CMD. This historical macro name does not turn the attached drive into a CMD-branded product.

Curated identifiers
pci 1095:3112

A numeric match establishes a candidate family within the reviewed evidence. Marketing names, board variants, subsystem conditions and successful operation remain separate questions.

Driver & binding

sata_sil is a libata low-level driver with controller-specific interrupt/error handling. AHCI-only advice is not automatically appropriate simply because the transport is SATA.

  • sata_sil — kernel driver/module candidate

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Firmware

Device/revision dependent

Controller firmware, option ROM and drive firmware can be separate. The reviewed sources do not establish a host-loaded filename for this profile; firmware revision and update policy require the actual controller and OEM identity.

Inspect firmware packaging on your distribution

Read-only diagnostics

Run one displayed command at a time. Replace uppercase placeholders with the affected device, interface or module from your own output. Commands are never executed here. Read-only output can still contain private identifiers.

Check the PCI function and bound driver

lspci -nnk -s BDF

Replace BDF with the domain:bus:device.function address. Look for [1095:3112] and Kernel driver in use. sata_sil in Kernel modules is only a candidate, not proof of binding.

Inspect visible block-device identities

lsblk -d -o NAME,MODEL,TRAN,HCTL

MODEL describes a block device or a controller-presented logical volume; it is not a PCI-controller identity. HCTL helps distinguish SCSI targets. TRAN can be absent, and this list does not establish the complete physical disk topology.

Read controller and transport messages

sudo journalctl -k -b --no-pager

Elevated access may be needed. Root reads the current boot kernel journal. Associate sata_sil messages, port/host identifiers and timeout/reset timestamps with the actual controller. A reset message alone does not prove a bad disk or a firmware defect.

Limitations & related issues

A legacy controller’s source support is not a statement about modern drive-feature compatibility or measured throughput. The controller, PCI bus and each SATA link can impose independent limits.

These guides are linked for relevant observations, not as known defects of every device in this family.

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References

Source review records a checked implementation or document, not a reproduced hardware test. Version-specific tables do not establish a minimum kernel or guaranteed operation.