Got rid of my SiI3112A

Frode Nordahl frode at nordahl.net
Mon Nov 29 12:57:11 PST 2004


Hello,

I have at last given up on the hope that the above mentioned hardware 
will work any time soon, so I'm waiting for my Promise TX2200 cards to 
arrive tomorrow! :-)

But as things are today, I think it would be best to remove support for 
SiI3112A. Especially since the general attitude towards it is "it's too 
broke, we don't want to waste any more time on it".

Attempting to use it in a 5.3-RELEASE or 6-CURRENT system will most 
likelly make your system crash and burn, and make your data 
unrecoverable beyond repair.


I think FreeBSD ATA subsystem rocks and beats any ATA subsystem in 
existance, but when we know something doesn't work with it, we should 
not pretend it does.


Mvh,
Frode Nordahl



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