What about ITE8212F (Was: Re: Silicon Image SiI 3112 Serial ATA)
Søren Schmidt
sos at DeepCore.dk
Tue Feb 1 12:12:12 PST 2005
Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
>> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:26:56 +0100
>> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos at DeepCore.dk>
>>
>>> =20
>>> OK, I'm just looking at AMD boards. ICH5 obviously doesn't go on
>>> any of those. Unfortunately only a few high-end opteron boards
>>> ship with something other than SiI3112. :(
>>
>>
>> As they say, you get what you pay for :)
>>
>
> What's your opinion about ITE8212F-based ATA controllers? When code
> that supports those controllers should reach RELENG_5? There are no
> Promise cards
> available in our area, but I can buy ITE8212F ones. My primary usage
> will be
> just plain ATA channels (I don't plan to use RAID functionality yet).
Well, I dont have too much experience with it since I just got the HW
about a month ago but its worked flawlessly since in daily use in my WS.
If you want 5.x support just grap the ATA driver form -current minus the
atapi*.? stuff and its will do the trick.
-Søren
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