Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:59:17 +0200 From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backporting S-ATA driver SiI 3112a to FreeBSD-STABLE? Message-ID: <4052BF55.3070900@ispro.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <6700000.1079144421@palle.girgensohn.se> References: <6700000.1079144421@palle.girgensohn.se>
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Well, Sil3112a is quite crappy sata controller :) I think it wouldnt worth backporting the driver at all. I have had exactly the same mainboard and I got sick of the SATA errors I get, and just trashed the board and got a new one. I am now happy :) Your best option seams to be changing your drives to PATA. This will save you from some future problems like losing data also :) Evren Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi, > > I've received a bunch of ASUS A7N8X-E deluxe together with Serial ATA > hard disks. I had planned to run 4.9 on this combo, but it seems the > Serial ATA support for this driver does not exist before 5.x or so. The > controller is a SiI 3112a from Silicon Image. > > Is there any chance of backporting this driver to -STABLE? At a glance, > it seems like a lot of work? > > We will use these machines as developer workstations, and need them to > have the same major FreeBSD revision as our customer servers, so we must > really run FreeBSD 4.x. Hence, I have two choices, either backporting > the SiS 3112a driver from -CURRENT, or trying to get the store to accept > trading the harddisks for plain old parallel ATA ones. > > Also, I've read a few pretty bad judgements about this controller from > some individuals. Is this true in any way? > > Suggestions and input appreciated. > > Thanks, > Palle > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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