Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:12:40 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Questions <questions@kuehlbox.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Sata-controller card? Message-ID: <p06200706bdc7db336ade@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <41A1BAA5.4060202@kuehlbox.de> References: <52aaba2404112006235fb63988@mail.gmail.com> <419F56EB.4010302@kuehlbox.de> <52aaba24041120064424b87cce@mail.gmail.com> <52aaba2404112109373f130bd8@mail.gmail.com> <41A1A461.5020409@kuehlbox.de> <p06200703bdc757b79977@[128.113.24.47]> <41A1BAA5.4060202@kuehlbox.de>
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At 11:08 AM +0100 11/22/04, Questions wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>Unless something happened in the past week or so, you can still
>>have WRITE_DMA problems with the SiL 3112 if you connect a
>>"fake SATA" drive to it, such as some of the Western Digital
>>drives. ... These drives seem to work okay on more expensive SATA
>>controllers, but I had a *lot* of headaches with one connected to a
>>SiL-3112 controller. I suspect that the same people who are willing
>>to live with a $10 disk controller are also going to be tempted to
>>buy the less-expensive "fake-SATA" hard drives...
>
>I've had in my test a Sil Image running on RELENG_5 cvs from last
>week with a Maxtor 160 SATA (sorry, don't have the model no handy
>atm) and it worked fine without any WRITE_DMA issues,
See also the recent thread on the FreeBSD-current mailing list, under
the subject of: "Re; List of fake vs. real SATA drives". One of the
messages in that thread notes:
Currently native SATA drives are still not so popular.
There are:
Seagate Barracuda ATA V, 7200.7, 7200.8
Maxtor DiamondMax10, MaXLineIII
Fujitsu MHT20xxBH(2.5 inch)
Any other drives (as far as I know, of course) are ATA drive
with serial-parallel bridge.
There are a lot of these fake-SATA drives, and the price on them is
attractive compared to many of the real-SATA drives. There are
some more details in that thread.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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