SATA on FreeBSD-4.x

[Björn König]

> Dan Strick wrote:
>
> It is good that there seems to be a PCI SATA card
> that seems to work well in FreeBSD-stable.

I use also a HighPoint SATA controller (HPT372) with FreeBSD 4.9. There were
some issues, but now after patching kernel sources it works fine.

> Do you by any
> chance know if the RAID mirroring function is implemented
> in the controller or in the driver?

Probably software implemented. Highpoint is for the very low-end market. You
should also know that the 37x are native ATA/133 chips. SATA functionality
is covered and provided by Marvell bridge chips; one for each channel.
That's the reason why SATA hardware works with non-SATA drivers.

Bjoern