SIISATA(4)

📦 version 11.0, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 SIISATA(4) — the Silicon Image SATA-II controllers driver, bestie edition 🎀

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for siisata, a driver in the Kernel Interfaces Manual section 4 (that's the drivers section, iykyk). it's giving "niche but iconic" and honestly? we stan a specialist. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, here's how it shows up in your kernel config, verbatim, no cap:

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

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

bestie. listen. the siisata driver is out here supporting the Silicon Image SteelVine family of SATA-II controllers — it's literally the middleman between the hardware and the ata(4) and atapi(4) subsystems. main character energy for real. 🦋

so these are the controllers that get the vibe check and actually pass — the siisata driver supports:

  • 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

four whole icon queens, periodt. 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read these next, they're the friend group:

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

the siisata driver first appeared in NetBSD 5.0 — a whole era. and NCQ support was added in NetBSD on October 7, 2017. glow-up achieved. 💅

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

the siisata driver was written by Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch@kollasch.net> — shoutout to him, fr fr. and NCQ support was added by him, and Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>. two legends, one driver. 😭💜

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so the not-so-slay parts, we gotta be honest:

  • Device hot swapping is not yet supported. so like, don't yank stuff out mid-operation, bestie, it's not that kind of party. 🙈
  • Silicon Image's Software RAID is not yet supported by the ataraid(4) driver. raid(4) can be used instead — slay, there's a workaround. 🌈
not me warning you that hardware hot swapping will simply not work, that's so unserious of the driver but we love it anyway 🍓

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came to you from Debian, dated October 7, 2017 — mwah, go forth and configure your SATA-II controllers with confidence. 🧚‍♀️✨

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