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From: Peter B <pb@ludd.ltu.se>
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Subject: Recommended S-ATA controller?
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What PCI 32/33 S-ATA controller is recommended for a x86/FreeBSD-6 system
that is stable and reliable in terms of hardware design, and software drivers ?

My current Promise card is said to abuse PCI burst mode, in essence it will
exploit to tight timing margins. And the motherboard doesn't have any option to
disable pci-burst. This gives intermittent errors.

sos@ comments on SII chipsets isn't encourageing either.

   /P