Michael W. Lucas wrote: > 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. I do have a couble of them actually, both the first revision thats *real* bad, and the second which is a hair better... Needless to say they both work in all my notherboards and with all my SATA disks, alas with the expect occasional timeout and retry... However, I dont have any real crappy HW around, I dont/wont waste my money on that, so that might explain why :) -- -SørenReceived on Wed Dec 01 2004 - 17:25:06 UTC
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