Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:16:28 +0300 From: Michael Lednev <liettneff@bk.ru> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: sata controllers Message-ID: <1623715538.20050123111628@bk.ru> In-Reply-To: <20050122211819.48139.qmail@beth.linkline.com> References: <55830518.20050122175200@bk.ru> <20050122204221.GC4466@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050122211819.48139.qmail@beth.linkline.com>
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Hello, sclements. On 23 января 2005 г., 0:18:19 you wrote: >>> i'm going to buy new sata-controller for my freebsd box and don't know >>> what to choose. as i seen in stable src there is support for silicon >>> image, promise and via chipsets (i believe others are integrated in >>> south bridges). what should i take to have no headache about my disks? >>> >>> ps: once i had experience with sii3112 based sata and it showed dma >>> timeouts, have anything changed since august in ata driver about >>> them? >> >> The author of that ata driver reports good results with the promise >> chips. The 3112 remains a piece of junk. >> >> -- Brooks slc> Also, The ICH5, 6300ESB, etc. SATA ports work very well. These tend to be slc> integrated in all new Intel based boards. As long as you stay away from RAID slc> mode and the Sil cards, you should be good to go! unfortunately integrated ones wont go, i need discrete controller and local stores have nothing to offer except sii3112 and via6420. how about via? -- Best regards, Michael mailto:liettneff@bk.ru
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