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Maseed wrote:

[SNIP]
> I have to point out in the above e-mail that the problem is not just
> confined to the 36GB Raptor, which might be a PATA drive with a Marvel
> chip to make it work with SATA drives, but it also plages *real*
> native SATA drives as well, since the 74GB Western Digital Raptor I
> have is a true SATA150 drive with TCQ.

Correction, the 74GB Raptor is still not a pure or native SATA device,=20
it still uses the marvell PATA-SATA converter chip. Its true that it=20
supports TCQ but thats the same old way as the IBM deathstars used, and=20
not directly comaprable to the new true SATA NCQ way of things.

> Anyhow, I am wondering if this issue has been resolved yet or not,
> either in FreeBSD-current or 5.3-RELEASE-px. I don't want to discard
> my current OS to install FreeBSD only to find out that the problem is
> still there. If  any sort of error logs or dmesg output is required by
> a potential developer from this setup of mine, I'll go so far as to
> resize my partition and install FreeBSD 5.3 and provide them, but the
> reason why I'm hesitant in doing that is the fact that I run a
> web-server on my computer that cannot stay down for long, as some
> friends of mine depend on it.

If you want 24/7 uptime, you *really* should be bying hardware of a=20
quality that matches that, the SiI3112 is *not* in that league, not even =

close.

--=20

-S=F8ren