Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:39:46AM -0500, 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. > > > He probably has one. Otherwise I don't think he would write > commit-messages like this one for sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c: > ---- > revision 1.50 > date: 2003/12/08 09:22:20; author: sos; state: Exp; lines: +3 -1 > More errata fixing for the SiI3112A disaster chip: > > Serialize access to the SATA channels, the chip messes up if > both channels are used at the same time. > > The SiI3112 hereby takes the price as the most crappy SATA chip in > existance by a significant amount. > > My advise to our userbase is to avoid this chip like the plague... > ---- > > > I take it that it is not so much a matter of this controller being > poorly supported, as of this being a poor controller. BINGO!! -- -SørenReceived on Wed Dec 01 2004 - 17:28:42 UTC
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