Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:59:42 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Stephan Fiebrandt <bsd@kuehlbox.de>, Sebastian Holmqvist <sebastian.holmqvist@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Sata-controller card? Message-ID: <p06200703bdc757b79977@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <41A1A461.5020409@kuehlbox.de> References: <52aaba2404112006235fb63988@mail.gmail.com> <419F56EB.4010302@kuehlbox.de> <52aaba24041120064424b87cce@mail.gmail.com> <52aaba2404112109373f130bd8@mail.gmail.com> <41A1A461.5020409@kuehlbox.de>
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At 9:33 AM +0100 11/22/04, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote: > >If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, >all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). >I've seen cards starting at 10$. Almost all low-cost cards have this >chip series, meanwhile on 5.3 it should work now without any problems. >The WRITE_DMA issues should be solved and commited to 5.3. Unless something happened in the past week or so, you can still have WRITE_DMA problems with the SiL 3112 if you connect a "fake SATA" drive to it, such as some of the Western Digital drives. These are really ATA drives with a little conversion-chip on them to implement SATA. These drives seem to work okay on more expensive SATA controllers, but I had a *lot* of headaches with one connected to a SiL-3112 controller. I suspect that the same people who are willing to live with a $10 disk controller are also going to be tempted to buy the less-expensive "fake-SATA" hard drives... >Have also a look at the 5.3 hardware list: >http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#DISK. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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