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Date:      Sat, 15 May 2004 21:30:09 +0200
From:      "=?iso-8859-1?B?Qmr2cm4gS/ZuaWc=?=" <bjoern.koenig@alpha-tierchen.de>
To:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SATA on FreeBSD-4.x
Message-ID:  <20040515192939.5CC4C8E8DF1@skal.local>
In-Reply-To: <20040515190056.F049916A4CF@hub.freebsd.org>

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> Dan Strick wrote:
>
> It is good that there seems to be a PCI SATA card
> that seems to work well in FreeBSD-stable.

I use also a HighPoint SATA controller (HPT372) with FreeBSD 4.9. There were
some issues, but now after patching kernel sources it works fine.

> Do you by any
> chance know if the RAID mirroring function is implemented
> in the controller or in the driver?

Probably software implemented. Highpoint is for the very low-end market. You
should also know that the 37x are native ATA/133 chips. SATA functionality
is covered and provided by Marvell bridge chips; one for each channel.
That's the reason why SATA hardware works with non-SATA drivers.

Bjoern




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