From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Ryan Earl" Subject: Re: Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:48:11 -0600 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4066833B.4080004@clanhk.org> References: <4066342B.4080105@clanhk.org> <406643A8.2050808@pobox.com> <40664AE4.8010003@clanhk.org> <406680AB.8090204@stesmi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ns.clanhk.org ([69.93.101.154]:40623 "EHLO mail.clanhk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262119AbUC1HsB (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 02:48:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <406680AB.8090204@stesmi.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Stefan Smietanowski Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > 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. That's an option, as is just using the sii3112 that's been working so well, but that still puts the disks on the PCI bus. The whole point is to get 300MB/sec of burstable I/O off the 133MB/s bus that's shared with the dual gigE controllers and a firewire camera. -ryan