From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 13:36:10 2005 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 C48B016A4CE for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:36:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3565643D1F for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:36:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])3FCEB44232; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:36:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (krusty [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25122-01; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:36:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org (pD9FFB976.dip.t-dialin.net [217.255.185.118]) 3B17F44234; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:36:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310CB77D5B; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:36:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from merlin.emma.line.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m2a2.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17684-04-2; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:36:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 301B877D5C; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:36:02 +0100 (CET) From: Matthias Andree To: Dazgreen5@aol.com In-Reply-To: <8d.1f937784.2f2eb08c@aol.com> (Dazgreen5@aol.com's message of "Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:50:04 EST") References: <8d.1f937784.2f2eb08c@aol.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:36:02 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:03:24 +0000 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silicon Image SiI 3112 Serial ATA controller support? 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, 31 Jan 2005 13:36:10 -0000 Dazgreen5@aol.com writes: > I wonder if you could help I have an asus a7n8x deluxe and have > been trying to install windows onto a serial drive with no success it keeps > asking for drives i down loaded them but still no joy would tou know any way i > can do this. Darren, you've hit the wrong forum, Windows installation is off-topic on FreeBSD lists. Please ask the vendor (either Asus or Microsoft; I'd think I'd suggest trying the first one first) for support. Other than that, FreeBSD has a SiI 3112 driver, but the hardware isn't to well-reputed and the common recommendation is to get something else as PCI card; for details on the hardware capabilities, Jeff Garzik's Linux oriented pages at can shed some light on this issue. Ignore the "libata driver status" lines, they apply to Linux exclusively. Jeff's site mentions that 3112 and 3114 have no command queueing support. BTW, I found answers to questions 1 to 7 at particularly elucidating. -- Matthias Andree