From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 20:16:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BCA16A421 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:16:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D961813C44C for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:16:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I8M7q-0007Ou-AY for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:15:58 +0200 Received: from 1-1-3-7a.rny.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.133.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:15:58 +0200 Received: from fredrik by 1-1-3-7a.rny.sth.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:15:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Fredrik Tolf Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:15:41 +0200 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 1-1-3-7a.rny.sth.bostream.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2UYUdh4Ipy7WA4oaRIhvfntddCE= Sender: news Subject: Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:16:03 -0000 I think I accidently posted a reply to this via private mail with an invalid source address, but I'm not sure what I did, so I'll take this opportunity to apologize to anyone to gets this message twice. Derek Ragona writes: > Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know > the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with > these chips and FreeBSD! That's interesting to me. Is there any further information available on that subject? I've been using SiL chips with Linux for quite a while with no problems, and I was planning to do the same with FreeBSD as well, but if there are known problems with SiL and FreeBSD I may need to rethink that decision. (To be more exact, I've been using the SiL 311[24] chips) Fredrik Tolf