Comment by lstodd

heh, in mid-2000s all I had were a batch of misbehaving SATA controllers under freebsd, and an (actually quite well-written core of a) linux driver was all I had to work with.

Without that, we would have probably just switched hw, because the quite obscure bug was in the ASIC, and debugging that on 2005-6-ish hw is just infeasible.