VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

[Sean Bruno]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:49 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:34, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > > In general it will probably work OK until you get an SATA PHY error and
> > > then the whole PC will lock up because the OS isn't polling the error
> > > register..
> >
> > Bummer...Is this a general issue of the way 4.X handles SATA?  I.e.
> > Would the ICH5 work any better to your knowledge?
> 
> 4.x doesn't handle SATA per se, it doesn't really know anything about it 
> unless you try dougb's patches (I think).
> 
> I would strongly suggest migrating ASAP so you don't get stuck with [more] 
> poorly supported hardware.
> 
> Or you could try staying with PATA drives, but it's a losing battle - you will 
> be hard pressed to find a new PC for which the devices are properly 
> supported. (eg stuff like onboard ethernet)
> 
/me groans...patches eh?

I'm not a BSD guy by trade...Could you tell me who Doug B is?  and point
me to the "patches" ... I want to at least see if my application(which
is seriously I/O bound) can be assisted by increasing the speed of the
drive's access.  SCSI is just too expensive for the stuff I want to do.

Sean

P.S.  But, if all else fails, FreeBSD 6 looks like the direction I need
to go anyway.