sata controllers

[sclements at linkline.com]

Brooks Davis writes: 

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:52:00PM +0300, Michael Lednev wrote:
>> Hello, freebsd-hardware. 
>> 
>> i'm going to buy new sata-controller for my freebsd box and don't know
>> what to choose.  as i seen in stable src there is support for silicon
>> image, promise and via chipsets (i believe others are integrated in
>> south bridges). what should i take to have no headache about my disks? 
>> 
>> ps: once i had experience with sii3112 based sata and it showed dma
>>     timeouts, have anything changed since august in ata driver about
>>     them?
> 
> The author of that ata driver reports good results with the promise
> chips.  The 3112 remains a piece of junk. 
> 
> -- Brooks

Also, The ICH5, 6300ESB, etc. SATA ports work very well. These tend to be 
integrated in all new Intel based boards. As long as you stay away from RAID 
mode and the Sil cards, you should be good to go!
 -Sam