On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Nick Holland wrote:
Chris Zakelj wrote:
Szechuan Death wrote:
Speaking of which: Which driver supports the Adaptec 1205SA? Anybody?
Bueller? Manpages are not forthcoming.
Don't know if any of them do, especially now that Adaptec SCSI has been
removed from the kernel. However, if any dev wants it, I just removed
one from my gaming machine, and I'd be more than happy to send it their way.
actually, only the Adaptec RAID controllers using the aac(4) driver were
removed. Most of the "simple" SCSI drivers continue on...
Were I a betting man, I'd bet the 1205SA is supported by the pciide(4)
driver. It appears to be a very basic SATA controller. If it's not
supported by pciide, it probably could be. Probably isn't even an
Adaptec chip on it.
The Adaptec 1205SA sports a SiL3112 chip and is supported by the pciide(4)
driver. I plugged one of those into my 3.5 box along with 2x250gb drives, and
it (and they) Just Worked(tm). As noted above, it is a very basic controller,
and performance isn't spectacular, but it is cheap (maybe not the Adaptec
branded one, though; I got mine for free) and works under most operating
systems with little or no hassles (notably, Windows proved to be the most
troublesome to get it working under).
I just bought another, similar controller, a 4-port one based on the 3114
version of the chip. I don't expect any problems with that either. :)
- Christer
