Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:37:05 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Burhan Nazir <burhan@btinternet.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller Message-ID: <xzp8yi75de6.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <40508447.2050409@btinternet.com> (Burhan Nazir's message of "Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:47 %2B0000") References: <404FACF7.3020500@btinternet.com> <4050139A.40003@DeepCore.dk> <40508447.2050409@btinternet.com>
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Burhan Nazir <burhan@btinternet.com> writes: > This controller may be crappy, however it is prevalent amongst many > nforce2 chipsets. In particular the asus A7N8X, which is ubiquitous. You may find the following link to be of interest: http://12.24.47.40/display/2n/kb/article.asp?aid=3D10516 > In addition, the controller does work and has so far caused no > problems under windows, so I am fairly pleased with it. "works with Windows" has got to be the computer hardware equivalent of "big in Japan"... > So, I would > hope that there is some talented deveoper out there that does not take > your narrow minded view I'm afraid you're the one being narrow-minded here. Talent alone is not sufficient to write a good driver. Experience with the FreeBSD kernel in general and the ata drivers in particular is a prerequisite, as is access to sample hardware and chipset documentation. You'll have a hard time finding someone with more experience in this area than S=C3=B8ren, and I wish you luck in obtaining documentation from Silicon Image. > and take mercy on all those people that would > love to use freebsd with raid0 on their desktop machines. There are plenty of other controllers you can use for RAID-0. Most Promise controllers, for instance, work flawlessly with FreeBSD, for the simple reason that Promise actually cares enough to provide S=C3=B8ren with the hardware and documentation he needs to write good drivers. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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