From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 10:00:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E4016A41F for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:00:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from V.Konrad@lse.ac.uk) Received: from exic6.lse.ac.uk (exic6.lse.ac.uk [158.143.217.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F9743D4C for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:00:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from V.Konrad@lse.ac.uk) Received: from ExF1.lse.ac.uk ([158.143.216.11]) by exic6.lse.ac.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:00:22 +0100 Received: exchange.lse.ac.uk 158.143.216.11 from 158.143.216.102 158.143.216.102 via HTTP with MS-WebStorage 6.0.6249 Received: 158.143.216.102 158.143.216.102 from 158.143.116.174 158.143.116.174 via HTTP with MS-WebStorage 6.0.6249 Received: from whirpool.lse.ac.uk by exchange.lse.ac.uk; 14 Oct 2005 10:47:13 +0100 From: Vladimir Konrad To: Benny Goemans In-Reply-To: <003b01c5d0a3$a6250da0$0200a8c0@bennypc> References: <1129279679.1317.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <003b01c5d0a3$a6250da0$0200a8c0@bennypc> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:47:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1129283233.1315.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2005 10:00:22.0627 (UTC) FILETIME=[176FAB30:01C5D0A6] Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sil3114 versus sil3114a X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:00:24 -0000 > 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. i am not planning using a raid in bios/harware, but raid5 using vinum. so the sil3114 raid is flaky but no raid sata channels are stable? also, are sil3114 and sil3114a both supported? (the one i am thinking of using is sil3114a). > 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. this is not on-board chip set but an add-on PCI card (4 port serial ata). basically, i need 4 serial ata ports in an older intel machine and could not find info on a 4 port non-raid sata card supported by FreeBSD. The one i found uses the sil3114a chip set. > If, on the other hand, you don't need raid features, it should work without > problems. with the sil3114a chip? vlad ps: i know that the description of the chip set is only different by the letter "a" but in principle the hardware could differ significantly.