Silicon Image SiI 3112 Serial ATA controller support?
Christopher JS Vance
freebsd at nu.org
Mon Jan 31 13:31:11 PST 2005
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:13:56PM -0600, Will Andrews wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 07:37:56AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> This is a mailing list for FreeBSD current. You can find
>> numerous newsgroup dealing with windows. As to your
>> controller, Soren has named the SiI 3112 as one of the worst
>> pieces of silicon every made and advises people to dump it.
>
>Yeah. It's too bad Linux supports it fine, FreeBSD used to, and
>almost every board that comes with SATA uses it. :(
Using the same driver, the SiI 3512 couldn't stay up on my FreeBSD 5
machine long enough even to finish fsck'ing the previous crash - I had
to change OS to a different *BSD, and even that falls over from time
to time.
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Christopher Vance
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