From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 12:37:15 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 6099616A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:37:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E736443D31 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:37:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 4A7EA5310; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:37:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id E2F21530A; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:37:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 5A32E33CA6; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:37:05 +0100 (CET) To: Burhan Nazir References: <404FACF7.3020500@btinternet.com> <4050139A.40003@DeepCore.dk> <40508447.2050409@btinternet.com> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:37:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <40508447.2050409@btinternet.com> (Burhan Nazir's message of "Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:47 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:37:15 -0000 Burhan Nazir 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