Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:13:28 +0100 (CET) From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: Mark Jacobs <jacobsm@gate.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial ATA support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200303170813.h2H8DTG5003994@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <005701c2ec26$67c6a820$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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It seems Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Received no responses the first time, so am trying again. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I am in the process of building a new system and was looking at > > using the new Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA drives. > > Does FreeBSD 4.x, or 5.x support SATA? > > Mark Jacobs > > If FreeBSD can detect the SATA controller, then I imagine it would support > it just fine, since the same command set is used on the software side. Currently the only (known) support SATA controllers are the Highpoint 15x0 series (they are just old PATA chips with PATA -> SATA converters). > Are you offering to donate a SATA controller / SATA-equipped motherboard to > Soren to make this a reality? <g> That would be nice indeed, I do have Promise's SATA products, but I'm looking for all other SATA controllers and *especially* SATA disks... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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