Re: What about ITE8212F (Was: Re: Silicon Image SiI 3112 Serial ATA)

From: Søren Schmidt <sos_at_DeepCore.dk>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:11:52 +0100
Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
>> Date:      Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:26:56 +0100
>> From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos_at_DeepCore.dk>
>>
>>> =20
>>> OK, I'm just looking at AMD boards.  ICH5 obviously doesn't go on
>>> any of those.  Unfortunately only a few high-end opteron boards
>>> ship with something other than SiI3112.  :(
>>
>>
>> As they say, you get what you pay for :)
>>
> 
>  What's your opinion about ITE8212F-based ATA controllers? When code 
> that supports those controllers should reach RELENG_5? There are no 
> Promise cards
> available in our area, but I can buy ITE8212F ones. My primary usage 
> will be
> just plain ATA channels (I don't plan to use RAID functionality yet).

Well, I dont have too much experience with it since I just got the HW 
about a month ago but its worked flawlessly since in daily use in my WS.
If you want 5.x support just grap the ATA driver form -current minus the 
atapi*.? stuff and its will do the trick.

-Søren
Received on Tue Feb 01 2005 - 19:12:12 UTC

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