Which Sata-controller card?

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 11:08 AM +0100 11/22/04, Questions wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>Unless something happened in the past week or so, you can still
>>have WRITE_DMA problems with the SiL 3112 if you connect a
>>"fake SATA" drive to it, such as some of the Western Digital
>>drives.  ... These drives seem to work okay on more expensive SATA
>>controllers, but I had a *lot* of headaches with one connected to a
>>SiL-3112 controller.  I suspect that the same people who are willing
>>to live with a $10 disk controller are also going to be tempted to
>>buy the less-expensive "fake-SATA" hard drives...
>
>I've had in my test a Sil Image running on RELENG_5 cvs from last
>week with a Maxtor 160 SATA (sorry, don't have the model no handy
>atm) and it worked fine without any WRITE_DMA issues,

See also the recent thread on the FreeBSD-current mailing list, under
the subject of: "Re; List of fake vs. real SATA drives".  One of the
messages in that thread notes:

     Currently native SATA drives are still not so popular.
     There are:
         Seagate Barracuda ATA V, 7200.7, 7200.8
         Maxtor DiamondMax10, MaXLineIII
         Fujitsu MHT20xxBH(2.5 inch)
     Any other drives (as far as I know, of course) are ATA drive
     with serial-parallel bridge.

There are a lot of these fake-SATA drives, and the price on them is
attractive compared to many of the real-SATA drives.  There are
some more details in that thread.

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