From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:22:34 -0500 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4067340A.5080709@pobox.com> References: <4066342B.4080105@clanhk.org> <406643A8.2050808@pobox.com> <40664AE4.8010003@clanhk.org> <406680AB.8090204@stesmi.com> <4066833B.4080004@clanhk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:9184 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262442AbUC1UWt (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:22:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4066833B.4080004@clanhk.org> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Ryan Earl" Cc: Stefan Smietanowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org J. Ryan Earl wrote: > 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. Do you really plan to get 300MB/sec from two disks? :) Jeff