Re: RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch

From: Alexander Motin <mav_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:39:50 +0300
James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
> Has anyone found any PCI-X or PCI cards that do AHCI?  Or a PCI-Express,
> PCI-X or PCI card that supports AHCI & FIS-based switching for port
> multipliers?
> 
> I'm trying to set up to test this but the only AHCI cards I've found are
> based on the Jmicron chips, which are PCI-e only, no more than 2 SATA
> ports, and don't do FIS-based switching.
> 
> PS. I understand FIS-based switching isn't there yet but I assume it
> will be.

I still haven't found any AHCI card with FBS support. Ideas welcome.

I am working on driver for SiI3124/3132. I haven't tested yet how fast 
they really are (3132 is quite cheap), but they declare PM with FBS 
support. First one is 4-port PCI-X, second - 2-port PCIe.

-- 
Alexander Motin
Received on Wed Jul 01 2009 - 07:39:57 UTC

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