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Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD 4.9 support SATA drives ?
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At 16:45 09.09.2003 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Carlos Jorge Santos wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We need to setup a new server for a customer, and instead of a more
> > expensive SCSI solution, the custmomer asked us to use a SATA Hard
> > Drive. We're still using FreeBSD 4.8, and will upgrade to 4.9, since
> > we use Hsphere and it doesn't support yet FreeBSD 5.1
> >
> > Are there any plans to include SATA support in the new upcoming 4.9
> > release?
>
>There is some discussion of _possibly_ backporting support for one of
>the "really easy" drivers either before, or right after 4.9, but I
>wouldn't count on it if you need to meet a deadline.

As Soeren Schmidt (ATA developer) mentioned elsewhere, 4.8R supports 
Highpoint 1520 and 1540 SATA cards, because they use the well known ATA 
chipset Highpoint 374 which has FreeBSD builtin support since 4.6R (?)

Alexander