Re: Serial ATA support in FreeBSD
It seems Matthew Emmerton wrote: Received no responses the first time, so am trying again. - I am in the process of building a new system and was looking at using the new Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA drives. Does FreeBSD 4.x, or 5.x support SATA? Mark Jacobs If FreeBSD can detect the SATA controller, then I imagine it would support it just fine, since the same command set is used on the software side. Currently the only (known) support SATA controllers are the Highpoint 15x0 series (they are just old PATA chips with PATA - SATA converters). Are you offering to donate a SATA controller / SATA-equipped motherboard to Soren to make this a reality? g That would be nice indeed, I do have Promise's SATA products, but I'm looking for all other SATA controllers and *especially* SATA disks... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Serial ATA support in FreeBSD
On Monday 17 March 2003 03:13 am, Soeren Schmidt wrote: It seems Matthew Emmerton wrote: Received no responses the first time, so am trying again. --- -- I am in the process of building a new system and was looking at using the new Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA drives. Does FreeBSD 4.x, or 5.x support SATA? Mark Jacobs If FreeBSD can detect the SATA controller, then I imagine it would support it just fine, since the same command set is used on the software side. Currently the only (known) support SATA controllers are the Highpoint 15x0 series (they are just old PATA chips with PATA - SATA converters). Are you offering to donate a SATA controller / SATA-equipped motherboard to Soren to make this a reality? g That would be nice indeed, I do have Promise's SATA products, but I'm looking for all other SATA controllers and *especially* SATA disks... -Søren The motherboard I am looking to get is the Asus NForce2 A7N8X deluxe. The SATA connector supported by the SiliconImage SATALINK chipset Sil31122 Mark Jacobs To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Serial ATA support in FreeBSD
It seems Mark Jacobs wrote: Currently the only (known) support SATA controllers are the Highpoint 15x0 series (they are just old PATA chips with PATA - SATA converters). Are you offering to donate a SATA controller / SATA-equipped motherboard to Soren to make this a reality? g That would be nice indeed, I do have Promise's SATA products, but I'm looking for all other SATA controllers and *especially* SATA disks... -Søren The motherboard I am looking to get is the Asus NForce2 A7N8X deluxe. The SATA connector supported by the SiliconImage SATALINK chipset Sil31122 That is not supported, and most likely wont be until I get one here in the lab, a PCI card with one would do just fine :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Serial ATA support in FreeBSD
Received no responses the first time, so am trying again. - I am in the process of building a new system and was looking at using the new Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA drives. Does FreeBSD 4.x, or 5.x support SATA? Mark Jacobs If FreeBSD can detect the SATA controller, then I imagine it would support it just fine, since the same command set is used on the software side. Are you offering to donate a SATA controller / SATA-equipped motherboard to Soren to make this a reality? g -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Serial ATA support in FreeBSD
Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received no responses the first time, so am trying again. - I am in the process of building a new system and was looking at using the new Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA drives. Does FreeBSD 4.x, or 5.x support SATA? As I understand it SATA is invisible to the OS, therefore, in theory, any OS would just see the drive[s] as fast UDMA. I'd like to hear what speeds you achieve if you go ahead with the purchase. From http://www.serialata.org/about/index.shtml Will Serial ATA be compatible with today's PCs? Serial ATA electronics and connectors will differ from Parallel ATA, however the technology is software compatible and OS transparent. It is anticipated that there will be adapters to facilitate forward- and backward-compatibility of hard disks on PC systems. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
