Silicon Image SiI 3112 Serial ATA controller support?

[Matthias Andree]

Dazgreen5 at aol.com writes:

>           I wonder if you  could help I have an asus a7n8x deluxe and have 
> been trying to install windows  onto a serial drive with no success it keeps 
> asking for drives i down loaded  them but still no joy would tou know any way i 
> can do this.

Darren, you've hit the wrong forum, Windows installation is off-topic on
FreeBSD lists. Please ask the vendor (either Asus or Microsoft; I'd
think I'd suggest trying the first one first) for support.

Other than that, FreeBSD has a SiI 3112 driver, but the hardware isn't
to well-reputed and the common recommendation is to get something else
as PCI card; for details on the hardware capabilities, Jeff Garzik's
Linux oriented pages at <http://linux.yyz.us/sata/> can shed some light
on this issue. Ignore the "libata driver status" lines, they apply to
Linux exclusively. Jeff's site mentions that 3112 and 3114 have no
command queueing support. BTW, I found answers to questions 1 to 7 at
<http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html> particularly elucidating.

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Matthias Andree