At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote:
Some quick questions:
1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good?
They suck.
They are horrible.
They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after
you add in all the aggravation they provide.
Don't waste your time on them. Buy a real SATA
controller. (disclaimer: I am only commenting on
their SATA controllers)
I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead
but was planning to use that elsewhere.
Unfortunately I don't know enough to comment on other
alternatives. I dumped my SiI3112 SATA controller
and bought a real controller as made by Promise, but
there are probably a number of other good options.
2) Would upgrading to something newer than 5.4-RELEASE
help with this issue?
It will probably help. That doesn't mean you will have
a reliable controller, it just means that 6.x includes
more work-arounds for the myriad bugs in these super-
cheap controllers. Some of these work-arounds result
in performance penalties.
Just my opinion, of course... YMMV.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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