Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:29:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backporting S-ATA driver SiI 3112a to FreeBSD-STABLE? Message-ID: <200403170029.i2H0Tcwd014909@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <6700000.1079144421@palle.girgensohn.se>
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Palle Girgensohn writes: | 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. You might consider this as a base: http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata.patch It's not fully done. The Intel SATA support is getting better for the 6300ESB ICH. The ICH5 SATA should work like the 6300ESB but I haven't tested it. The Promise SATA support is solid in our testing. Hot swap works well. I've been spending a lot of time in this area. BTW a failure mode in the SATA spec. says freeze (ie. lock up the system if you don't acknowledge SATA issues). Most issues have been fixed or works for me. Doug A.home | help
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