Backporting S-ATA driver SiI 3112a to FreeBSD-STABLE?

[Evren Yurtesen]

Well, Sil3112a is quite crappy sata controller :) I think it wouldnt 
worth backporting the driver at all. I have had exactly the same 
mainboard and I got sick of the SATA errors I get, and just trashed the 
board and got a new one. I am now happy :)

Your best option seams to be changing your drives to PATA. This will 
save you from some future problems like losing data also :)

Evren

Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've received a bunch of ASUS A7N8X-E deluxe together with Serial ATA 
> hard disks. I had planned to run 4.9 on this combo, but it seems the 
> Serial ATA support for this driver does not exist before 5.x or so. The 
> controller is a SiI 3112a from Silicon Image.
> 
> Is there any chance of backporting this driver to -STABLE? At a glance, 
> it seems like a lot of work?
> 
> We will use these machines as developer workstations, and need them to 
> have the same major FreeBSD revision as our customer servers, so we must 
> really run FreeBSD 4.x. Hence, I have two choices, either backporting 
> the SiS 3112a driver from -CURRENT, or trying to get the store to accept 
> trading the harddisks for plain old parallel ATA ones.
> 
> Also, I've read a few pretty bad judgements about this controller from 
> some individuals. Is this true in any way?
> 
> Suggestions and input appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Palle
> 
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