Mark Kirkwood wrote:
Vlad Skvortsov wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking to buy a Promise SATA300 TX4302 (PCI->[e]SATA) card to
use for external backups on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE system. Can anyone
share their experiences with this one?
Also, the box is a pretty old hardware; pardon my ignorance, what
should I check to see if the PCI bus will accomomdate the card? The
card description[1] mentions:
# PCI 33/66MHz bus supports up to 266MB/sec burst data transfer rate
(PCI 66MHz)
# PCI 2.3 compliant
Thanks!
[1]:
http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?segment=Non-RAID%20HBAs&product_id=168
Your motherboard needs to be PCI 2.2 or 2.3 complaint according to the
manual (you need to tell us what the board is for us to help here).
Most should be unless they are very old (later Pentium III Coppermine
onwards should be ok).
Thanks Mark -- that's exactly what I was asking for :-)
Is there a way to check this without physical access to the box? dmesg
doesn't seem to contain this info; pciconf is hot helpful as well.
The physical slot can be either a 32 or 64 bit one (if the latter the
card only occupies the 1st half of it) - i.e any PCI slot.
Having said that, Promise support in Freebsd is a little variable - I
have not tried the later cards, but had no joy with a TX4000 in a
Supermicro P3TDER, whereas a 3Ware 7506 worked no trouble at all. I
would recommend getting a 3Ware SATA card (also they typically are a
better card than the corresponding Promise).
Hmm, that's too pricey for me ($250+ range); I was looking for something
< $100 and without RAID.
It seems that people have no experience with this particular card
though, so I'll start another thread to find out what other options exist.
--
Vlad Skvortsov, v...@73rus.com, http://vss.73rus.com
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