From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 11 02:24:29 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 A51F716A400 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:24:29 +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 617E113C44C for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:24:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I8RsH-0001yt-T5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:24:17 +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 ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:24:17 +0200 Received: from fredrik by 1-1-3-7a.rny.sth.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:24:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Fredrik Tolf Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:24:03 +0200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070709160933.024cddb0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <7245DFC8-E14A-4016-81B4-D4D9D22DA428@mac.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:Vh5AB+H2ehDkQNajZ9PzWEi5hrw= Sender: news Subject: SiL S-ATA (Was: 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: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:24:29 -0000 Chuck Swiger writes: > [...] > 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 Thanks for the reference! It was an interesting read, and it does calm me down a bit, as it suggests the problem to be limited to chips with rev <= 1, whereas all my cards are rev 2. Well, if nothing else, it will be interesting to test my cards with FreeBSD and see what happens. In the worst case, it won't be that hard for me to switch to another card (just hoping that it won't cause any data corruption). It will probably be a while before I get the drives to connect to them, but I'll try to remember to post the results of my testing. Fredrik Tolf