Re: SATA disk/controller problems

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:30:09PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> One more check could be to try exactly the same hardware using OpenBSD,
> for example.
> 
> There indeed _are_ flaws in NetBSD's SATA drivers - I reported one end of
> last year (in SiI 3112A driver), and I've got an answer "works for us" as
> well.

The SiI controllers are in a different boat than the piix. First,
the the piix documentation are freely available, I'm not sure about the SiI.
Second, the piix isn't a SATA controller from the software POW, because
it doesn't offer access to the SATA registers. It's handled like
a PATA controller.

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