FreeBSD and Serial ATA support

From: Rumen Telbizov (altares_at_e-card.bg)
Date: 10/29/03

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    Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:27:26 +0200
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    Hi List,

    Maybe this has been already discussed but it is very important
    for me.

    I will be setting up a 4.9 server these days on a motherboard
    with Serial ATA controllers and with Serial ATA discs.
    I was reading about the support of Serial ATA in 4.x
    but could not find a clear answer if my motherboard controllers
    are supported under FreeBSD.

    The motherboard is:
    Asus P4 P800-VM Intel 865G 800FSB/4GB and
    the discs are Seagate 80GB Serial ATA 8MB cache.

    Is this hardware going to work under FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE
    in Serial ATA mode?

    I am even more confused about this serial
    ata 'support' because www.serialata.com says that
    it is supposed to be transparent to the OS!

    Another question I have is:
    The motherboard has 2 UltraATA 100 controllers which
    can be used (if serial ata controllers are not supported)
    with serial ata discs with the aid of a convertor (PATA to SATA).
    Are these UltraATA 100 controllers supported? Has anyone set up
    that kind of configuration under FreeBSD 4.x(9) ?

    I would appreciate all your comments.

    Thank you in advance.

    Rumen Telbizov
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