Gentoo Ramdisk for Silicon Image 3112

[Morimando]

German (english look beyond) Folgendes Problem:
Die im Kernel mitgelieferten Treiber funktionieren mit meinem SATA-Treiber nicht (Silicon Image 3112A, onboard bei ASUS A7N8X Deluxe).
Habe getestet: silicon Image Treiber unter den ATA-Treibern -> findet meinen Controller, findet die Platte, killt mein System sobald ich hde(1-6) mounten will.
Unter den SCSI Treibern die Low-Level SATA-Treiber für Silicon Image funktionieren auch nicht, friert System direkt beim Start ein.
Nun hatte ich vorher Mandrake drauf, und hatte vor der Install ne Treiberdiskette reingeworfen für den Silicon Image, Mandrake hat auf die Disk zugegriffen kurz und danach lief alles sauber, weshalb ich mal frech davon ausgehe, dass Mandrake sich die Treiber darauf kopiert hat (eigentlich .inf Dateien AFAIK). Nun hat Mandrake eine Ramdisk erstellt, wo ich u.U. ja die Treiber finden und die Ramdisk so modifizieren könnte, dass die für mein Gentoo läuft, läge diese Ramdisk nicht auf meinem SATA-Dateisystem... Gentoo läuft im Moment recht fein auf der normalen IDE.

Any ideas? Also wo ich ggf die Treiber herkrieg die passen und dann wie ich ne Ramdisk bau oder irgendeine Idee eben, wie ich den Controller hinkrieg. Im vorraus danke

English: forgotten: english translation
so the problem is the following: i can't get my Silicon Image 3112A onboard SATA controller to work. With my previous Linux-distro (Mandrake 10.1) i just inserted a floppy before starting the cd-install, because without disk Mandrake was taking hours bringing up the install-screen. Starting with the disc inserted, Mandrake just "looked" at the floopy, maybe copying the driver and then worked just fine.
In fact it is a normal .ini driver, and i dunno if Mandrake could have copied it or if it just worked by chance.. fact is Mandrake worked with that, made an init-ramdisc and used it ever on... so my Samsung SP 1614C was working just fine, Mandrake installed on sda2-5 (sda1 would be WindowsXP).. to get to the point: I tried building my kernel a dozen times, using 1st the IDE-Silicon Image driver which is kinda weird coz it treats the disc like ordinary IDE. With this driver Gentoo starts up, detects the drive as "hde", sets PIO Mode (kinda deprecated) and should give access via /dev/hde. Vut everytime i try mounting hde, my system freezes.
So i tried the low-level SATA Sil, and kernel locks up right after Grub.. so my question: would it be possible to convert the .ini to an ordinary module and load that into the kernel or using a ramdisc to load before kernel? I'd really love the 160GB of space available to my Gentoo... just having 80GB to work with just sucks..

so any help appreciated, thanks in advance..
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[Morimando]

just tried a nu kernel, Low-Level SCSI-support --> SATA --> Silicon Image (New)
(libsata deactivated)
kernel boots successfully, but on

[Morimando]

seems as if i gotta find a solution myself?
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That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
-- Marvin

[Luguber]

Have you found a solution to this problem?
I've got a Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard and a Western Digital drive and I can't seem to be able to boot any recent kernel versions, the last one that worked was 2.6.7.
Gentoo 2005.0 stopped right after loading the sata driver. If I boot from the livecd, I can access the drive. I even installed Gentoo using the genkernel script, which I thought should make a kernel that behaved similar to the one on the livecd.