Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:44:41 -0800 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11 Message-ID: <1132638281.5202.3.camel@home-desk> In-Reply-To: <200511221449.16139.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <1132629660.4202.3.camel@home-desk> <200511221424.54872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1132632286.4202.7.camel@home-desk> <200511221449.16139.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:49 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:34, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > In general it will probably work OK until you get an SATA PHY error and > > > then the whole PC will lock up because the OS isn't polling the error > > > register.. > > > > Bummer...Is this a general issue of the way 4.X handles SATA? I.e. > > Would the ICH5 work any better to your knowledge? > > 4.x doesn't handle SATA per se, it doesn't really know anything about it > unless you try dougb's patches (I think). > > I would strongly suggest migrating ASAP so you don't get stuck with [more] > poorly supported hardware. > > Or you could try staying with PATA drives, but it's a losing battle - you will > be hard pressed to find a new PC for which the devices are properly > supported. (eg stuff like onboard ethernet) > /me groans...patches eh? I'm not a BSD guy by trade...Could you tell me who Doug B is? and point me to the "patches" ... I want to at least see if my application(which is seriously I/O bound) can be assisted by increasing the speed of the drive's access. SCSI is just too expensive for the stuff I want to do. Sean P.S. But, if all else fails, FreeBSD 6 looks like the direction I need to go anyway.
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