On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Alexander Yurchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:48:30AM -0700, Brian wrote:
> > I know SATA is not as good as SCSI, but the new motherboard I picked
> > up has SATA using NVIDIA, which I take is not supported accroding to pciide.
> >
> > Does NVIDIA SATA fall into the same realm of cheap controllers like Adaptec?
>
> nvidia sata fall into the realm of ``hardware which vendor never gives us
> the docs''.
>
You might want to consider ASUS(VIA), .. pciide works just fine, as does
raidframe:
pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VIA VT8237 SATA" rev 0x80: DMA
pciide0: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST380013AS>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <ST380013AS>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors
wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
pciide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA133,
channel 0
configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
The only problem I have found is the sk0 driver appears to be unstable in
some installations, requiring a separate NIC (could have be related to GB
on 100BaseT, but it wasn't worth the time to troubleshoot).
Lee
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