Installation woes with 6.2 release

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> writes:
>> Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem.  I do know
>> the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues  
>> with
>> these chips and FreeBSD!
>
> That's interesting to me. Is there any further information available
> on that subject?
>
> I've been using SiL chips with Linux for quite a while with no
> problems, and I was planning to do the same with FreeBSD as well, but
> if there are known problems with SiL and FreeBSD I may need to rethink
> that decision.
>
> (To be more exact, I've been using the SiL 311[24] chips)

There are significant hardware defects with the SiliconImage 311x  
chips, which can mostly be worked around if you accept a loss of  
performance.  These workarounds are implemented in both Linux and the  
BSDs, but details are available here:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Silicon+Image+3112 
+bugs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

...gives results such as:

http://www.nabble.com/SII3512-rev0---t3995350.html

-- 
-Chuck