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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:13:28 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
To:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        Mark Jacobs <jacobsm@gate.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serial ATA support in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200303170813.h2H8DTG5003994@spider.deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <005701c2ec26$67c6a820$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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It seems Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > Received no responses the first time, so am trying again.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > I am in the process of building a new system and was looking at
> > using the new Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA drives.
> > Does FreeBSD 4.x, or 5.x support SATA?
> > Mark Jacobs
> 
> If FreeBSD can detect the SATA controller, then I imagine it would support
> it just fine, since the same command set is used on the software side.

Currently the only (known) support SATA controllers are the Highpoint 15x0
series (they are just old PATA chips with PATA -> SATA converters).

> Are you offering to donate a SATA controller / SATA-equipped motherboard to
> Soren to make this a reality? <g>

That would be nice indeed, I do have Promise's SATA products, but I'm looking
for all other SATA controllers and *especially* SATA disks...

-Søren

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