On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:49 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:34, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > In general it will probably work OK until you get an SATA PHY error and > > > then the whole PC will lock up because the OS isn't polling the error > > > register.. > > > > Bummer...Is this a general issue of the way 4.X handles SATA? I.e. > > Would the ICH5 work any better to your knowledge? > > 4.x doesn't handle SATA per se, it doesn't really know anything about it > unless you try dougb's patches (I think). > > I would strongly suggest migrating ASAP so you don't get stuck with [more] > poorly supported hardware. > > Or you could try staying with PATA drives, but it's a losing battle - you > will > be hard pressed to find a new PC for which the devices are properly > supported. (eg stuff like onboard ethernet) > /me groans...patches eh?
I'm not a BSD guy by trade...Could you tell me who Doug B is? and point me to the "patches" ... I want to at least see if my application(which is seriously I/O bound) can be assisted by increasing the speed of the drive's access. SCSI is just too expensive for the stuff I want to do. Sean P.S. But, if all else fails, FreeBSD 6 looks like the direction I need to go anyway. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
