On 2006/01/29 16:43, L. V. Lammert wrote: > At 03:28 PM 1/29/2006 -0700, David Wilk wrote: > >Howdy all, I was just wondering what SATA support was like in 3.8. > >Specifically, are there any promise controller add-in cards (as opposed to > >built-in to mobo) that anyone would recommend? Or, are things as they were > >in May of '05 when Theo was less than enthused with then-current SATA > >support: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111390018104270&w=2 > > A number of MBs support SATA (e.g. ASUS, which we have been using since > 3.7), .. however, to my knowledge, Promise has never released anything but > fake driver-required devices which will not be supported.
There are some SATA Promise controllers listed on pciide(4) and the hardware lists on the platform pages (www.openbsd.org/i386.html etc: the Promise ones aren't specifically listed as SATA, but a quick search on the model numbers will confirm that some of them are). Sometimes you may need to play with BIOS settings to make them work. The bios-assisted-software-mirroring "RAID" controllers should show up as plain sata controllers that you can use with ccd or raidframe. (this doesn't say whether or not they're still finicky and buggy, though).
