SATA detection

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> Or get a motherboard which has a SATA controller onboard, and you'd save
>> hours of pain & suffering.
>>
>
> As long as there is a driver for that onboard SATA controller.
> For example, I see a nice  Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 motherboard with a
> Silicon Image sil3512 SATA controller onboard; I don't see a linux
> driver for that exact chip.  So still one must deal with drivers.

AFAIK, all Silicon Image SATA controllers are supported by the sata_sil 
driver.  I'm positive that the sil3512 works fine in Linux.


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