On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:10:00AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>:
>:What's the current status of serial ATA support?
>:
>:Freebsd 4-STABLE seems to have it close to nil, and I don't feel like
>:needing freebsd 5.3.
>:
>:,Yury
>
> Well, basically SATA controllers look almost like normal IDE controllers
> so the issue is mostly just adding support for the PCI IDs. If a
> device is not recognized report your pciconf -l and dmesg output and
> if FreeBSD-5.x/6.x has support for the ID we can usually bring it in
> fairly quickly.
>
Under Linux IDE is deprecated for SCSI to control SATA. Will using IDE
affect SATA performance or reliability? or is SCSI the preferred api
only for linux?
// George
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