Silicon Image SiI 3112 Serial ATA controller support?

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:48:49PM -0600, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:19:14PM -0800, Samuel Clements wrote:
> > Actually, If I recall correctly, the ICH5 is the most popular (volume 
> > wise) controller being shipped today. This combined with the numbers 
> > from the Promise & 3ware controllers easily give you a substantial 
> > number of good controllers to choose from...
> 
> 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.  :(

The DFI K8M800-MLVF (socket 754) I picked up for $76 avoids this issue
as well as the nforce2 suckage.  It's cheap and doens't have gigabit or
64-bit PCI, but even with the bottom of the line 2800+ it's giving the
dual 2.4GHz Xeon a run for it's money.

-- Brooks

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