ATA controller cards supported by FreeBSD

Dan Strick strick at covad.net
Mon Sep 29 19:18:14 PDT 2003


Does FreeBSD support any PCI ATA controller cards other than those
made by HighPoint and Promise?  Everything else that I can identify
in the ATA section of the HARDWARE.TXT file seems to be a CPU support
chipset.

I am confused by the HighPoint model numbers listed.  HPT370, HPT372,
and HPT374 are RAID controller ICs.  The Rocket133 ATA controller card
made by HighPoint uses the HPT302 IC, which is not listed in the
HARDWARE.TXT file.  (Is it too new?  Is it not supported?)
Given that HighPoint sports a FreeBSD logo on its web site, I would
expect broader hardware support.

I am also a little confused by the Promise products listed in the
HARDWARE.TXT file.  Every single FastTrak or TX2000 product listed
on the Promise web site is a RAID controller.  The only ATA controller
from the HARDWARE.TXT file described on the Promise web site is the
Ultra-133 TX2.  The other Ultra-xxx products are presumably old and
discontinued.

Summary: with the *single* exception of the Promise Ultra-133 TX2,
every single supported ATA controller listed in the HARDWARE.TXT file
is either old/discontinued, a chipset, or actually a RAID controller
and not an ATA controller.

This can't be right.  Surely FreeBSD supports a bunch of PCI ATA
controller cards.  What/Where are they?

If I took the HARDWARE.TXT file literally, I would also have to
conclude that FreeBSD did not support a single ISA ATA controller
card.

I must have missed something really obvious and important.
Can someone point me in the right direction.

Dan Strick
strick at covad.net


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