From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 11:02:53 2003 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 4AC1D37B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-89.apple.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD5D43FBD for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:02:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leimy2k@mac.com) Received: from webmail06.mac.com (webmail06-en1 [10.13.11.148]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h4MI2qUd026210 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail06 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webmail06.mac.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h4MI2qrY027593 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7781430.1053626572205.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:02:52 -0500 From: David Leimbach To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: SATA and FBSD 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, 22 May 2003 18:02:53 -0000 I am planning a new workstation and need to know if SATA will work on FBSD. Is anyone working with SATA drives on FBSD and if so is it stable? Is it backwards compatible enough with ATA that it doesn't really matter for basic functionality or does it require new driver code? Dave