On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:56:41AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote:
> Does anyone have some tips on what to look for when purchasing
> mainboards with sata? Like what chipsets control the sata drives, what
> device drivers to use. I'm want to build a new server which will run
> netbsd 3 but all this sata stuff is hurting my head. For instance, I'm
> looking at the intel se7221bk1-e and the docs say that ICH6R I/O
> controller is part of the E7221 chipset, do I need to look for E7221
> or ICH6R support on http://netbsd.org/Hardware/ ? I'm not looking for
> a raid solution but all of these boards have some type of raid
> controller, how does that play into the equation?

The ICH6R should be fine.
Each chipset is in fact 2 chips: the northbridge (memory controller)
and the southbridge (PCI controller, which also contains some PCI devices).
The E7221 is the northbridge, the ICH6R the southbridge.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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