Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:24:57 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release Message-ID: <7245DFC8-E14A-4016-81B4-D4D9D22DA428@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <m3y7hot3pu.fsf@pc7.dolda2000.com> References: <a9f4a3860707091343w777104fave47aedf9177b76f7@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <m3y7hot3pu.fsf@pc7.dolda2000.com>
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On Jul 10, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> 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) There are significant hardware defects with the SiliconImage 311x chips, which can mostly be worked around if you accept a loss of performance. These workarounds are implemented in both Linux and the BSDs, but details are available here: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Silicon+Image+3112 +bugs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 ...gives results such as: http://www.nabble.com/SII3512-rev0---t3995350.html -- -Chuck
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