From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 20:24:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A199116A400 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:24:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8938E13C45E for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:24:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay7.apple.com (relay7.apple.com [17.128.113.37]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79627B65066; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay7.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay7.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 658B63005F; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:24:58 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807125-a2c67bb0000007df-1d-4693eb1a95d2 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (int-si-a.apple.com [17.128.113.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay7.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 4BDEC30047; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:24:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7245DFC8-E14A-4016-81B4-D4D9D22DA428@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:24:57 -0700 To: Fredrik Tolf X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:24:58 -0000 On Jul 10, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Derek Ragona writes: >> Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know >> the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues >> with >> these chips and FreeBSD! > > That's interesting to me. Is there any further information available > on that subject? > > I've been using SiL chips with Linux for quite a while with no > problems, and I was planning to do the same with FreeBSD as well, but > if there are known problems with SiL and FreeBSD I may need to rethink > that decision. > > (To be more exact, I've been using the SiL 311[24] chips) There are significant hardware defects with the SiliconImage 311x chips, which can mostly be worked around if you accept a loss of performance. These workarounds are implemented in both Linux and the BSDs, but details are available here: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Silicon+Image+3112 +bugs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 ...gives results such as: http://www.nabble.com/SII3512-rev0---t3995350.html -- -Chuck