SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Richard P. Koett
Hello All: I'm setting up a small fileserver at home running 5.4-RELEASE. I'm booting from a small IDE hard drive and have installed a SiI3112 controller and a pair of SATA drives for data storage. Before starting I flashed the controller with latest firmware (4.2.77) and performed a low-level

RE: SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Richard P. Koett
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Richard P. Koett wrote: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that elsewhere. A simple google for sil3112 freebsd will return you plenty of responses which will provide an answer

RE: SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Richard P. Koett
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote: Some quick questions: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? They suck. They are horrible. They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after you add in all the aggravation they provide. Don't waste