Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller

Jon Noack noackjr at alumni.rice.edu
Thu Mar 11 12:16:39 PST 2004


On 3/11/2004 9:22 AM, Burhan Nazir wrote:
>> Anyhow the sii3112 is by far the most crappy SATA controller on the 
>> market, so it might be difficult to get anyone interested in wasting 
>> (more) time on this...
> 
> This controller may be crappy, however it is prevalent amongst many 
> nforce2 chipsets.  In particular the asus A7N8X, which is ubiquitous.  
> In addition, the controller does work and has so far caused no problems 
> under windows, so I am fairly pleased with it.
> So, I would hope that there is some talented deveoper out there that 
> does not take your narrow minded view and take mercy on all those people 
> that would love to use freebsd with raid0 on their desktop machines.

Given the amount of ATA work Søren's done (including on the sii3112), I 
find it highly unlikely his view on this subject is narrow-minded...

Jon Noack



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