From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 07:55:06 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 9A4F637B404 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 07:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D693643FA3 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 07:55:05 -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 h4QEoWZ06606; Mon, 26 May 2003 07:50:32 -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 HAA19095; Mon, 26 May 2003 07:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3ED22AE0.2070009@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 08:55:28 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Leimbach References: <7148481.1053628241316.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <7148481.1053628241316.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: Mon, 26 May 2003 14:55:06 -0000 David Leimbach wrote: >>>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? > > > Well I have been drooling over this Asus board with the Nforce2 Nvidia > chipset. > > Its the Silicon ImageŽ Sil 3112A Controller. On the Asus NForce2 A7N8X deluxe > board. > > Dave > > >>Scott >> >> >> Sorry for the late response. I have several Sil 3112A controllers that I still need to test out. It appears to have an IDE compat mode, but I need to confirm that first. Scott