Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:37:14 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Class <michaelc@tmbbobmc.bbn.hp.com> To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SIL3112 and Maxtor 6Y160M0 SATA Disk: DMA Failure Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501141526560.10904@tmbbobmc.bbn.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <m3ekgppbej.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <41E568CE.9030905@gmx.de> <m3ekgppbej.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Matthias Andree wrote: > Michael Class <michael.class@gmx.de> writes: > >> recently I have added a cheap SIL3112 SATA controller in my system. > > The chip is buggy. > > Does the seller offer you to return that product and buy something else > in exchange? If recently is within a week or two, some offer such > "Umtausch" options. Well, I have read the sourcecode of the ata driver and found that there are two revisions of that chip. For the older one there is some special workaround. And if I remember well, that was about having two disks on one controller causing problems. I do have the newer revision of the chip. Up so far I have not read that these controllers do not work at all on FreeBSD. Yes, for sure I could exchange this controller, but unless we do a formal announcement that this controller will not be supported in FreeBSD, I do think that we will cause problems for FreeBSD reputation as these contollers are fairly widespread. I am not in an urgent need to have this working, so I am open to help with testing. Michael
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