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Date:      Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:31:06 +1100
From:      Christopher JS Vance <freebsd@nu.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Silicon Image SiI 3112 Serial ATA controller support?
Message-ID:  <20050131213106.GD5834@nu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050131201356.GK73953@hex.databits.net>
References:  <8d.1f937784.2f2eb08c@aol.com> <20050131153756.GA64943@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050131201356.GK73953@hex.databits.net>

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:13:56PM -0600, Will Andrews wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 07:37:56AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> This is a mailing list for FreeBSD current.  You can find 
>> numerous newsgroup dealing with windows.  As to your 
>> controller, Soren has named the SiI 3112 as one of the worst
>> pieces of silicon every made and advises people to dump it.
>
>Yeah.  It's too bad Linux supports it fine, FreeBSD used to, and
>almost every board that comes with SATA uses it.  :(

Using the same driver, the SiI 3512 couldn't stay up on my FreeBSD 5
machine long enough even to finish fsck'ing the previous crash - I had
to change OS to a different *BSD, and even that falls over from time
to time.

-- 
Christopher Vance



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