Re: libata support for Adaptec 1205SA?

[Jeff Garzik]

Hugo Mills wrote:
>    I don't know for certain, *but* the AAR-1210SA definitely uses the
> SiI3112 chip (slightly mangled), and I'd be surprised if Adaptec used
> a different chip for the 1205SA. There's a picture of the 1210SA card

that's my suspicion too.


> > Does anyone here know, and more importantly, is libata ready to 
> > support it? I want to build a 6-drive SATA RAID using software RAID 5 
> > (can't just the expense of a 3ware card for this application), so I 
> > need to add four ports to the two already present on an ICH5 on the 
> > motherboard.
>
>
>    AFAIK, libata doesn't support SiI3112 yet. Jeff has promised it at
> some point -- possibly as the next SATA chip to support.

The driver is posted in the latest snapshot, but it's only for developer 
use right now...  need to acknowledge a few more interrupt events :)

	Jeff



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