Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:47:13 +0100 From: Vladimir Konrad <v.konrad@lse.ac.uk> To: Benny Goemans <benny.goemans@telenet.be> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sil3114 versus sil3114a Message-ID: <1129283233.1315.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <003b01c5d0a3$a6250da0$0200a8c0@bennypc> References: <1129279679.1317.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <003b01c5d0a3$a6250da0$0200a8c0@bennypc>
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> 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. i am not planning using a raid in bios/harware, but raid5 using vinum. so the sil3114 raid is flaky but no raid sata channels are stable? also, are sil3114 and sil3114a both supported? (the one i am thinking of using is sil3114a). > 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. this is not on-board chip set but an add-on PCI card (4 port serial ata). basically, i need 4 serial ata ports in an older intel machine and could not find info on a 4 port non-raid sata card supported by FreeBSD. The one i found uses the sil3114a chip set. > If, on the other hand, you don't need raid features, it should work without > problems. with the sil3114a chip? vlad ps: i know that the description of the chip set is only different by the letter "a" but in principle the hardware could differ significantly.
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