From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 08:59:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E5416A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:59:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B815643D1D for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:59:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iAM8xgNo002494; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:59:43 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <41A1A461.5020409@kuehlbox.de> References: <52aaba2404112006235fb63988@mail.gmail.com> <419F56EB.4010302@kuehlbox.de> <52aaba24041120064424b87cce@mail.gmail.com> <52aaba2404112109373f130bd8@mail.gmail.com> <41A1A461.5020409@kuehlbox.de> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:59:42 -0500 To: Stephan Fiebrandt , Sebastian Holmqvist From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Sata-controller card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:59:46 -0000 At 9:33 AM +0100 11/22/04, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote: > >If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, >all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). >I've seen cards starting at 10$. Almost all low-cost cards have this >chip series, meanwhile on 5.3 it should work now without any problems. >The WRITE_DMA issues should be solved and commited to 5.3. Unless something happened in the past week or so, you can still have WRITE_DMA problems with the SiL 3112 if you connect a "fake SATA" drive to it, such as some of the Western Digital drives. These are really ATA drives with a little conversion-chip on them to implement SATA. These drives seem to work okay on more expensive SATA controllers, but I had a *lot* of headaches with one connected to a SiL-3112 controller. I suspect that the same people who are willing to live with a $10 disk controller are also going to be tempted to buy the less-expensive "fake-SATA" hard drives... >Have also a look at the 5.3 hardware list: >http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#DISK. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu