From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 09:10:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C44616A4F0 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:10:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737CF43D82 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:10:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gofda-freebsd-amd64@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AizOY-00008v-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:10:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiyUg-0007zq-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:12:46 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiyUg-0001sS-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:12:46 +0100 From: Marc Bevand Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:11:44 +0100 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <17426.6989030459$1073697945@news.gmane.org> <20040113070204.GA764@curacao.n2it.nl> <200401141224.i0ECObwr093993@bigtex.jrv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200401141224.i0ECObwr093993@bigtex.jrv.org> Sender: news Subject: Re: ATA (Re: AMD64 support in 5.x versions) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:10:51 -0000 James Van Artsdalen wrote: > > [...] > Highpoint sells an RR-1820 PCI-X (64-bit 133 MHz) serial ATA controller > but I cannot get them to send me any technical documentation and > cannot get it to work with Windows with the supplied drivers. Silicon > Image has a 3124 chip which is PCI-X and ought to be able to directly > address more than 4 GB of RAM but I don't know of any card that uses > this yet. Intel has a PCI-X SATA controller [1] too, but I am not aware of any product using it. There is also Marvell which has some PCI-X SATA chips [2]. Here is a product using them [3]. [1] http://www.intel.com/design/storage/serialata/gd31244.htm [2] http://www.marvell.com/products/storage/sata/index.jsp [3] http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/Accessories/DAC-SATA-MV8.htm -- Marc Bevand - System and IT Security Engineer - SmartJog Phone: +33.1.49.96.63.19 Cell: +33.6.63.97.45.26