> In terms of hardware, AHCI (from Intel/SiS/ULi/others) and Silicon Image > 3124 are the best of the current generation of "FIS-based" SATA-II > controllers. With these controllers, ATA controllers are __finally__ as > efficient as SCSI controllers have been for years. > > For SATA-I controllers, I tend to feel that the Promise SATA cards > driven by the sata_promise driver are decent. > > The rest of the SATA-I controllers all pretty much look the same, > hardware-wise: Decade-old PATA controller interface with PCI > extensions, with further SATA extensions (SATA phy registers).
I had been looking hard at the Abit SU-2S, with the Marvell 88SX6081 on board. Is this to say that the Marvell chip is also in the latter category of "slow annoying PATA-like crap"? Does anyone know an AHCI controller that can be attached to a dual opteron motherboard? All of the ones mentioned seem to be built into Intel chipsets. Thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
