On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:40:41PM +0100, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Frode Nordahl wrote: > > > But as things are today, I think it would be best to remove > > support for > > SiI3112A. Especially since the general attitude towards it is > > "it's too > > broke, we don't want to waste any more time on it". > > > > Attempting to use it in a 5.3-RELEASE or 6-CURRENT system will most > > likelly make your system crash and burn, and make your data > > unrecoverable beyond repair. > > I will have to agree with Frode on this one. I recently put -CURRENT on a > machine with an ASUS mobo that had a SiL 3112 controller. Hooking up two > 250GB WD discs to it quickly resulted in timeouts, followed by some strange > messages from geom_stripe (used it to stripe the two discs), followed by > filesystem corruption and panics. Does anyone know if Soren has one of these controllers? Getting him a poorly-supported controller is the first step towards getting it fixed. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas_at_FreeBSD.org, mwlucas_at_BlackHelicopters.org "I'm sorry, but 'Social Darwinism' is no excuse for killing all of your co-workers." -- Ivan Brunetti http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/Received on Wed Dec 01 2004 - 14:40:05 UTC
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