At 11:08 AM +0100 11/22/04, Questions wrote:
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
Unless something happened in the past week or so, you can still
have WRITE_DMA problems with the SiL 3112 if you connect a
"fake SATA" drive to it, such as some of the Western Digital
drives. ... These drives seem to work okay on more expensive SATA
controllers, but I had a *lot* of headaches with one connected to a
SiL-3112 controller. I suspect that the same people who are willing
to live with a $10 disk controller are also going to be tempted to
buy the less-expensive "fake-SATA" hard drives...
I've had in my test a Sil Image running on RELENG_5 cvs from last
week with a Maxtor 160 SATA (sorry, don't have the model no handy
atm) and it worked fine without any WRITE_DMA issues,
See also the recent thread on the FreeBSD-current mailing list, under
the subject of: "Re; List of fake vs. real SATA drives". One of the
messages in that thread notes:
Currently native SATA drives are still not so popular.
There are:
Seagate Barracuda ATA V, 7200.7, 7200.8
Maxtor DiamondMax10, MaXLineIII
Fujitsu MHT20xxBH(2.5 inch)
Any other drives (as far as I know, of course) are ATA drive
with serial-parallel bridge.
There are a lot of these fake-SATA drives, and the price on them is
attractive compared to many of the real-SATA drives. There are
some more details in that thread.
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