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From: "Richard P. Koett" <lists@telus.net>
To: "'Alex Zbyslaw'" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:33:46 -0800
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Subject: RE: SiI3112 Controller Question
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Richard P. Koett wrote:
> 
>> 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? I have the option of
>> using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that
>> elsewhere.  
>> 
>> 
> A simple google for "sil3112 freebsd" will return you plenty of
> responses which will provide an answer to your question - which is, no
> they are not any good.   I'll leave you with google to fill in the
> details. 
> 

Thanks Alex. I did check Google before posting but nothing I read was
very recent. I was curious if things had improved since newer firmware
and newer versions of FreeBSD had come along.

I'll go with the HPT controller.

RPK.