Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:42:48 +0200 From: "Benny Goemans" <benny.goemans@telenet.be> To: "Vladimir Konrad" <v.konrad@lse.ac.uk>, <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sil3114 versus sil3114a Message-ID: <003b01c5d0a3$a6250da0$0200a8c0@bennypc> References: <1129279679.1317.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Hi, if you are planning to use the Sil3114 in a raid, I don't recommend it. I've been using it a while, but FreeBSD doesn't support the raid that you create using the bios. Thus, if you're planning to do a dual boot (ie. Windows), it's a bad idea because you can't use the raid features then. Besides, I've noticed (from using it myself for half a year), that it's stability isn't really that good. What I propose is to check whether the motherboard has some other raid controller (i.e. for a NForce4 motherboard, the Nvidia Raid) that is supported and use that one. If, on the other hand, you don't need raid features, it should work without problems. Benny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vladimir Konrad" <v.konrad@lse.ac.uk> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: sil3114 versus sil3114a > I am planning to buy a serial ATA, 4 port controller. The one I am > thinking of buying has a Silicon Image Sil3114a chip set. > > The ata(4) for FreeBSD 6 only lists Sil3114. > > The question is, would the Sil3114a work under FreeBSD 6? > > Also, any experience with these serial ATA chip sets? > > vladimir > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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