Well, Sil3112a is quite crappy sata controller :) I think it wouldnt worth backporting the driver at all. I have had exactly the same mainboard and I got sick of the SATA errors I get, and just trashed the board and got a new one. I am now happy :)

Your best option seams to be changing your drives to PATA. This will save you from some future problems like losing data also :)

Evren

Palle Girgensohn wrote:
Hi,

I've received a bunch of ASUS A7N8X-E deluxe together with Serial ATA hard disks. I had planned to run 4.9 on this combo, but it seems the Serial ATA support for this driver does not exist before 5.x or so. The controller is a SiI 3112a from Silicon Image.

Is there any chance of backporting this driver to -STABLE? At a glance, it seems like a lot of work?

We will use these machines as developer workstations, and need them to have the same major FreeBSD revision as our customer servers, so we must really run FreeBSD 4.x. Hence, I have two choices, either backporting the SiS 3112a driver from -CURRENT, or trying to get the store to accept trading the harddisks for plain old parallel ATA ones.

Also, I've read a few pretty bad judgements about this controller from some individuals. Is this true in any way?

Suggestions and input appreciated.

Thanks,
Palle

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