From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 11:17:19 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 64AE437B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:17:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E6043FBF for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:17:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4MICxZ16357; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:12:59 -0700 Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.253.56]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14894; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3ECD1373.6040305@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:14:11 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Leimbach References: <7781430.1053626572205.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <7781430.1053626572205.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 18:17:19 -0000 David Leimbach wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" It all depends on the controller chip. The ATA driver was recently updated to recognise the SATA controller in the new Intel ICH5 chips. Some controller chips will work with the existing ATA driver with few if any changes, other SATA chips will require a whole new driver. Do you have a particular controller chip in mind? Scott