Sebastian Holmqvist wrote:
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:44:12 +0100, Sebastian HolmqvistIf you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). I've seen cards starting at 10$. Almost all low-cost cards have this chip series, meanwhile on 5.3 it should work now without any problems. The WRITE_DMA issues should be solved and commited to 5.3.
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:38:35 +0100, Stephan Fiebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sebastian Holmqvist wrote:
Had some bad experience with my previous one: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus, so I would like some tips. Two harddrives will be attached for now, maybe more later. Alot of data transfer.
I have an 5.3-can running.
3ware SATA controller cards. These are "true" RAID controller cards instead of the tons of "ata" controllers with bios extentions witch are nothing else than a "softwareraid". 3ware cont. also preserve your CPU from high load as you would have with usual ATA cont.
Myself, i am using 3ware now with FreeBSD since years.. only can report good experience. I also had defekt controllers from the old 6000series replaced with new 7500 series without loosing any data.
Greetings,
Stephan Fiebrandt
ALright. Well, won't be using raid. Forgot to mention that. So feel free to suggest cheaper cards without raid :)
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Nobody?
Have also a look at the 5.3 hardware list: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#DISK.
Best regards,
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