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Date:      Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:01:28 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Heinz Suez <malagana15@yahoo.es>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serious SATA problem
Message-ID:  <20051107220128.GD29473@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20051107211838.101.qmail@web26413.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References:  <20051107211838.101.qmail@web26413.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

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On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:18:38PM +0100, Heinz Suez wrote:
> Hi community,
> 
> I'm having a huge hardware issue. I have spent a lot
> of money in new hardware and don't want to sell it
> all. I own a DFI P2XBL/D motherboard with Intel 440BX
> chipset and recently bought an Omega 102 SATA PCI
> controller with SIL3112A chipset + 1 SATA2 HDD Western
> Digital 120GB 8MB buffer (Model WD1200JS, the drive is
> jumpered to work at 150 MB/sec). The motherboard meets
> PCI 2.1 specifications and no aditional pci cards are
> installed, only the sata controller and a GeForce2 MX
> in the AGP slot. I have 256 MB of apacer registered
> ecc ram. An LG cdrom and no other hdd is installed
> rather than my new sata hdd.

SIL3112* chipsets have a bad reputation and are unlikely to ever be well
supported.

-- Brooks



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