On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:43, HaggeL wrote: > > Hi Guys :) > > > > Sorry if i waste your time. IŽm a freeBSD noob and need some help. > > I want to install freeBSD in januar and have some problems. I want to > > buy me a new harddrive, a serial ATA one, because i got the "Silicon > > ImageR Sil 3112A-Controller" onboard (Asus A7N8X Motherboard). I > > didnŽt find a driver in the Hardware Notes of FreeBSD 5.1, and on the > > Producer homepage are only ready Linuxkernels avaible > > (http://12.24.47.40/display/2n/searchDirect/?searchString=Sil+3112A&searchType=allwords&searchby=keywords&r=0.8157617). > > So can anyone tell me if i can get a SATA disk run? I donŽt want to > > boot from it, just read and write. Buying a new disk only for windows > > use is wasted money > > We're having a pretty lengthy discussion about these controllers on this > list right now. I suggest you read the archives. Bottom line, the > controller is supported, but it's problematic. The ATA maintainer has > working controllers, but there are those of us that experience data > corruption, and at least one user that can't use his drive at all when > connected to said controller. I believe a workaround was recently committed to improve behavior on older cards using that chipset. Specifically the following change to ata-chipset.c: revision 1.48 date: 2003/11/28 19:01:28; author: sos; state: Exp; lines: +6 -2 Workaround for errata on early versions of the sii3112. Approved by: re_at_ Does this make any difference in your configuration? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert_at_fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee ResearchReceived on Sun Nov 30 2003 - 10:42:49 UTC
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