SIISATA(4)

NAME
siisata - Silicon Image SATA-II controllers driver

SYNOPSIS
siisata* at pci? dev ? function ?
siisata* at cardbus? function ?

DESCRIPTION
The siisata driver supports the Silicon Image SteelVine family of SATA-II controllers, interfacing the hardware with the ata(4) and atapi(4) subsystems.

The following controllers are supported by the siisata driver:

Silicon Image SiI3124 4-port PCI/PCI-X
Silicon Image SiI3132 2-port PCI-Express x1
Adaptec 1220SA (SiI3132 chip)
Silicon Image SiI3531 1-port PCI-Express x1

SEE ALSO
ata(4), atapi(4), cardbus(4), pci(4), wd(4)

HISTORY
The siisata driver first appeared in NetBSD 5.0. NCQ support was added in NetBSD on October 7, 2017.

AUTHORS
The siisata driver was written by Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch@kollasch.net>. NCQ support was added by him, and Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>.

BUGS
Device hot swapping is not yet supported.

Silicon Image's Software RAID is not yet supported by the ataraid(4) driver. raid(4) can be used instead.