From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 09:42:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD2E16A41F for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:42:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benny.goemans@telenet.be) Received: from adicia.telenet-ops.be (adicia.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D8743D45 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:42:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benny.goemans@telenet.be) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by adicia.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 586AD380D4; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:42:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bennypc (d51A58257.access.telenet.be [81.165.130.87]) by adicia.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EC65380CD; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:42:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <003b01c5d0a3$a6250da0$0200a8c0@bennypc> From: "Benny Goemans" To: "Vladimir Konrad" , References: <1129279679.1317.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:42:48 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Cc: Subject: Re: sil3114 versus sil3114a X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:42:54 -0000 Hi, if you are planning to use the Sil3114 in a raid, I don't recommend it. I've been using it a while, but FreeBSD doesn't support the raid that you create using the bios. Thus, if you're planning to do a dual boot (ie. Windows), it's a bad idea because you can't use the raid features then. Besides, I've noticed (from using it myself for half a year), that it's stability isn't really that good. What I propose is to check whether the motherboard has some other raid controller (i.e. for a NForce4 motherboard, the Nvidia Raid) that is supported and use that one. If, on the other hand, you don't need raid features, it should work without problems. Benny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vladimir Konrad" To: Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: sil3114 versus sil3114a > I am planning to buy a serial ATA, 4 port controller. The one I am > thinking of buying has a Silicon Image Sil3114a chip set. > > The ata(4) for FreeBSD 6 only lists Sil3114. > > The question is, would the Sil3114a work under FreeBSD 6? > > Also, any experience with these serial ATA chip sets? > > vladimir > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >