From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
To: "J. Ryan Earl" <heretic@clanhk.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:37:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406680AB.8090204@stesmi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40664AE4.8010003@clanhk.org>
Hi.
> I meant sata_via, I dunno why I said sata_sil; Freudian typo. I was
> thinking of the current sii3112 I use, which has been stable and
> blazingly fast for awhile with the IDE driver--and a little little patch
> I keep applying. I'm looking to upgrade a server with 2 Raptors in it
> to an A64 running 64-bit Linux of course. I wanna get the HDs off the
> PCI bus and onto the VT8237 southbridge. I was wondering if the driver
> for -that southbridge- was still considered beta.
Many A64 boards today come with a Promise SATA controller as well -
works like a charm for me on an ASUS K8V Deluxe board here.
The driver is sata_promise but I guess you either knew that or
would be able to figure it out yourself :)
// Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-28 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-28 2:10 Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237 J. Ryan Earl
2004-03-28 3:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 3:47 ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-03-28 7:37 ` Stefan Smietanowski [this message]
2004-03-28 7:48 ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-03-28 20:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:40 ` J. Ryan Earl
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