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Date:      Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:52:47 +0200
From:      Daan Vreeken <Daan@vehosting.nl>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin <mav@mavhome.dp.ua>
Subject:   Re: WIP: ATA to CAM integration
Message-ID:  <200906152352.48231.Daan@vehosting.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200906051728.n55HSFf0076644@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <4A254B45.8050800@mavhome.dp.ua> <4A294DC3.5010008@mavhome.dp.ua> <200906051728.n55HSFf0076644@apollo.backplane.com>

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Hi,

On Friday 05 June 2009 19:28:15 Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Latest AHCI specifications define feature named FIS Based Switching. It
> :allows controller independently track state of every device beyond port
> :multiplier. It should be quite easy to use it, but actually none of my
> :controllers have that capability.
>
>     Damn.  The FBSS capability bit is not set on my (AMD) MCP77 based AHCI
>     SATA controller.  That sucks.
>
>     ahci0: <NVidia-MCP77-SATA>...
>     ahci0: AHCI 1.2 capabilities
> 0xe3229f05<S64A,NCQ,SSNTF,SAL,SCLO,SPM,PMD>, 6 port
>
>     Do you know of any host controllers which support FBS ?  Any of the
>     Intel parts or machines per-chance?
...

According to the following link :
	http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?pid=32

the SiI3132 supports FIS based switching. We use them in a storage server 
prototype.


Regards,
-- 
Daan Vreeken
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