Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:49:26 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: HaggeL <HaggeL@Olympclan.de> Subject: Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status Message-ID: <1070221766.98573.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031130143821.66375W-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031130143821.66375W-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 14:40, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:43, HaggeL wrote: > > > Hi Guys :) > > > > > > Sorry if i waste your time. IŽm a freeBSD noob and need some help. > > > I want to install freeBSD in januar and have some problems. I want to > > > buy me a new harddrive, a serial ATA one, because i got the "Silicon > > > ImageR Sil 3112A-Controller" onboard (Asus A7N8X Motherboard). I > > > didnŽt find a driver in the Hardware Notes of FreeBSD 5.1, and on the > > > Producer homepage are only ready Linuxkernels avaible > > > (http://12.24.47.40/display/2n/searchDirect/?searchString=Sil+3112A&searchType=allwords&searchby=keywords&r=0.8157617). > > > So can anyone tell me if i can get a SATA disk run? I donŽt want to > > > boot from it, just read and write. Buying a new disk only for windows > > > use is wasted money > > > > We're having a pretty lengthy discussion about these controllers on this > > list right now. I suggest you read the archives. Bottom line, the > > controller is supported, but it's problematic. The ATA maintainer has > > working controllers, but there are those of us that experience data > > corruption, and at least one user that can't use his drive at all when > > connected to said controller. > > I believe a workaround was recently committed to improve behavior on older > cards using that chipset. Specifically the following change to > ata-chipset.c: > > revision 1.48 > date: 2003/11/28 19:01:28; author: sos; state: Exp; lines: +6 -2 > Workaround for errata on early versions of the sii3112. > > Approved by: re@ > > Does this make any difference in your configuration? Well, it makes my configuration fail more quickly. I have the newer hardware revision 0x02, so technically I shouldn't need this patch. I actually modified it so that the SIIBUG flag was applied to my card, but it resulted in a kernel panic while building world. Joe > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research > > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/yknGb2iPiv4Uz4cRAklXAJ9kVuOVdDOPYo8wBJ5MsOhx/2Ib/QCeIv1S MbkzKDM2EuDQvxNPK66hjys= =FvwC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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