From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 07:15:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D8716A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 07:15:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 884A443D1D for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 07:15:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gaml@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 11556 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2004 15:15:11 -0000 Received: from 217-162-134-28.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO ?10.2.2.3?) (217.162.134.28) by 0 with SMTP; 15 Feb 2004 15:15:11 -0000 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:17:03 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1301661531.20040215161703@buz.ch> To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gU2NobWlkdA==?= In-Reply-To: <402F88AB.8010003@DeepCore.dk> References: <1123980863.20040215144711@buz.ch> <402F7E61.1060304@DeepCore.dk> <234276322.20040215153634@buz.ch> <402F88AB.8010003@DeepCore.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: SI3112A SATA controller RAID support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:15:14 -0000 Hello Søren, Sunday, February 15, 2004, 3:56:43 PM, you wrote: > However there are *alot* of bugs in that silicon, making it the most > crappy SATA chip in existance, but what can you expect from the company > that brought us the CMD640 etc ;) Well I just figured out that myself. I think it would be best if you were to kick support for it altogether, considering I can't even get 5.2.1 install on it without paniccing (installing base works, but it crashes somewhere installing src, ports or something). The kernel claims to have suffered a page fault but I've been beating on the memory in question with Memtest86 for quite some time now, without finding any problem at all. I'm gonna get a Highpoint based SATA controller tomorrow to check if it's really the SI chips fault (but I'm pretty sure it is). Had I known this was a successor to CMD640 (one of the (possibly even THE) crappiest ICs ever made), I probably wouldn't have bothered in first place (but background rebuilds startable from BIOS looked charming, nonetheless). Note to self: run away from anything with Silicon Image in it. Best regards, Gabriel