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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:42:21 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Michael Lednev <liettneff@bk.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sata controllers
Message-ID:  <20050122204221.GC4466@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <55830518.20050122175200@bk.ru>
References:  <55830518.20050122175200@bk.ru>

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On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:52:00PM +0300, Michael Lednev wrote:
> Hello, freebsd-hardware.
> 
> i'm going to buy new sata-controller for my freebsd box and don't know
> what to choose.  as i seen in stable src there is support for silicon
> image, promise and via chipsets (i believe others are integrated in
> south bridges). what should i take to have no headache about my disks?
> 
> ps: once i had experience with sii3112 based sata and it showed dma
>     timeouts, have anything changed since august in ata driver about
>     them?

The author of that ata driver reports good results with the promise
chips.  The 3112 remains a piece of junk.

-- Brooks

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