Subject: Re: AHCI support for SATA devices?
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: None <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/14/2005 12:58:12
In message <20051214183224.GA5732@panix.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes:

>On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 07:16:22PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> 
>> Do you know an add-on PCI adapter that has the AHCI interface ?
>> Hum, maybe the last DELL I have at work have AHCI on the motherboard,
>> I'll have a look.
>
>I hear contradictory things about whether the newest SiI chips support
>AHCI.  A machine with an Intel ICH6 or ICH7 chipset should.

I should have two PCI-e cards with SiI 3132 chips delivered today.
AFAIK, NetBSD doesn't have a driver for the SiI3124 or 3132, but
FreeBSD has a 3124 driver; and the Linux sil24 driver supports both
PCI-X and PCI-e cards.

I've not seen any mention of open-source ACHI drivers which support
these chips.  Have you?