Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:28:18 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> Subject: Re: Got rid of my SiI3112A Message-ID: <41AE0D42.6070503@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20041201164134.GA58263@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <3BE1BF5E-4249-11D9-9F7A-000A95A9A574@nordahl.net> <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA0VcX9IoJqUaXPS8MjT1PdsKAAAAQAAAAJpasAlXO4Einr%2BiKLvDeSgEAAAAA@telia.com> <20041201153946.GA16872@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20041201164134.GA58263@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:39:46AM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote: >=20 >>On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:40:41PM +0100, Daniel Eriksson wrote: >> >>>Frode Nordahl wrote: >>> >>> >>>>But as things are today, I think it would be best to remove=20 >>>>support for=20 >>>>SiI3112A. Especially since the general attitude towards it is=20 >>>>"it's too=20 >>>>broke, we don't want to waste any more time on it". >>>> >>>>Attempting to use it in a 5.3-RELEASE or 6-CURRENT system will most=20 >>>>likelly make your system crash and burn, and make your data=20 >>>>unrecoverable beyond repair. >>> >>>I will have to agree with Frode on this one. I recently put -CURRENT o= n a >>>machine with an ASUS mobo that had a SiL 3112 controller. Hooking up t= wo >>>250GB WD discs to it quickly resulted in timeouts, followed by some st= range >>>messages from geom_stripe (used it to stripe the two discs), followed = by >>>filesystem corruption and panics. >> >>Does anyone know if Soren has one of these controllers? >> >>Getting him a poorly-supported controller is the first step towards >>getting it fixed. >=20 >=20 > He probably has one. Otherwise I don't think he would write > commit-messages like this one for sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c: > ---- > revision 1.50 > date: 2003/12/08 09:22:20; author: sos; state: Exp; lines: +3 -1 > More errata fixing for the SiI3112A disaster chip: >=20 > Serialize access to the SATA channels, the chip messes up if > both channels are used at the same time. >=20 > The SiI3112 hereby takes the price as the most crappy SATA chip in > existance by a significant amount. >=20 > My advise to our userbase is to avoid this chip like the plague... > ---- >=20 >=20 > I take it that it is not so much a matter of this controller being > poorly supported, as of this being a poor controller. BINGO!! --=20 -S=F8ren
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