At 9:33 AM +0100 11/22/04, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote:
If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller,
all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc).
I've seen cards starting at 10$. Almost all low-cost cards have this
chip series, meanwhile on 5.3 it should work now without any problems.
The WRITE_DMA issues should be solved and commited to 5.3.
Unless something happened in the past week or so, you can still have
WRITE_DMA problems with the SiL 3112 if you connect a "fake SATA"
drive to it, such as some of the Western Digital drives. These are
really ATA drives with a little conversion-chip on them to implement
SATA. These drives seem to work okay on more expensive SATA
controllers, but I had a *lot* of headaches with one connected to a
SiL-3112 controller. I suspect that the same people who are willing
to live with a $10 disk controller are also going to be tempted to
buy the less-expensive "fake-SATA" hard drives...
Have also a look at the 5.3 hardware list:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#DISK.
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