From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 23:59:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46CC416A4CE; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:59:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-out-02.utu.fi (smtp-out-02.utu.fi [130.232.202.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCEE43D31; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:59:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from ispro.net.tr (perpetual.yok.utu.fi [130.232.138.155]) by smtp02.mess.utu.fi (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTPS id <0HUI001SK8UOJ3@smtp02.mess.utu.fi>; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:59:13 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:59:17 +0200 From: Evren Yurtesen In-reply-to: <6700000.1079144421@palle.girgensohn.se> To: Palle Girgensohn Message-id: <4052BF55.3070900@ispro.net.tr> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030808 References: <6700000.1079144421@palle.girgensohn.se> cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backporting S-ATA driver SiI 3112a to FreeBSD-STABLE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:59:16 -0000 Well, Sil3112a is quite crappy sata controller :) I think it wouldnt worth backporting the driver at all. I have had exactly the same mainboard and I got sick of the SATA errors I get, and just trashed the board and got a new one. I am now happy :) Your best option seams to be changing your drives to PATA. This will save you from some future problems like losing data also :) Evren Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi, > > I've received a bunch of ASUS A7N8X-E deluxe together with Serial ATA > hard disks. I had planned to run 4.9 on this combo, but it seems the > Serial ATA support for this driver does not exist before 5.x or so. The > controller is a SiI 3112a from Silicon Image. > > Is there any chance of backporting this driver to -STABLE? At a glance, > it seems like a lot of work? > > We will use these machines as developer workstations, and need them to > have the same major FreeBSD revision as our customer servers, so we must > really run FreeBSD 4.x. Hence, I have two choices, either backporting > the SiS 3112a driver from -CURRENT, or trying to get the store to accept > trading the harddisks for plain old parallel ATA ones. > > Also, I've read a few pretty bad judgements about this controller from > some individuals. Is this true in any way? > > Suggestions and input appreciated. > > Thanks, > Palle > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"