Re: Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237

[Jeff Garzik]

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



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