sil3114 versus sil3114a

[Benny Goemans]

Hi,

if you are planning to use the Sil3114 in a raid, I don't recommend it. I've
been using it a while, but FreeBSD doesn't support the raid that you create
using the bios. Thus, if you're planning to do a dual boot (ie. Windows),
it's a bad idea because you can't use the raid features then. Besides, I've
noticed (from using it myself for half a year), that it's stability isn't
really that good.

What I propose is to check whether the motherboard has some other raid
controller (i.e. for a NForce4 motherboard, the Nvidia Raid) that is
supported and use that one.

If, on the other hand, you don't need raid features, it should work without
problems.

Benny


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vladimir Konrad" <v.konrad at lse.ac.uk>
To: <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:47 AM
Subject: sil3114 versus sil3114a


> I am planning to buy a serial ATA, 4 port controller. The one I am
> thinking of buying has a Silicon Image Sil3114a chip set.
>
> The ata(4) for FreeBSD 6 only lists Sil3114.
>
> The question is, would the Sil3114a work under FreeBSD 6?
>
> Also, any experience with these serial ATA chip sets?
>
> vladimir
>
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