Re: Recommended SATA controllers
are you sure that they are not SiI 3114 ? i had similar discussion on this list a while ago and 3114 was said to be the good one and the 3112 the bad one. Yup. Just checked the hotstamp on the chip: 3112. Is it possible that some boards which used the 3112 chip were made and that those manufacturing problems have been since fixed? it is possible that both - the hardware and FreeBSD support for it improved to the point, when it makes no difference whether it is 3112 or 3114... (but i am not sure about it) vlad signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommended SATA controllers
As far as the Sil3112 chips go, I'm using them everywhere and they work quite well. Sometimes less is more. are you sure that they are not SiI 3114 ? i had similar discussion on this list a while ago and 3114 was said to be the good one and the 3112 the bad one. vlad signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommended SATA controllers
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:36:31AM +0100, vladimir konrad wrote: As far as the Sil3112 chips go, I'm using them everywhere and they work quite well. Sometimes less is more. are you sure that they are not SiI 3114 ? i had similar discussion on this list a while ago and 3114 was said to be the good one and the 3112 the bad one. Yup. Just checked the hotstamp on the chip: 3112. Is it possible that some boards which used the 3112 chip were made and that those manufacturing problems have been since fixed? -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mike Jakubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I find that the Intel series (ICH) controllers are solid and have good support (i.e. Hot swap) Intel's SATA controllers are not available as add-on cards. ICH is short for I/O Controller Hub, i.e. the motherboard's south bridge. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 19 May 2007, at 10:56, Adriaan de Groot wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2007 01:34:01 Charles Sprickman wrote: Looking to spend under $70 or so, which I'm guessing is a pretty high ceiling for a non-RAID card. Various Promise controllers (TX2, TX4, 4302) fall in the high end of that range, as do (PCI 2-port) SiI 3112 controllers. There's also the SiI 3124 (PCI-X 4-port) and SiI 3132 (PCIe x1 2-port) but those are in - CURRENT only or you need to MFC them yourself (I can give you a tarball of that, but obviously those are all way off the supported track). Those SiI cards will go for about $30, I think. I'd vote against a TX2 or SIL3112 based solution on FreeBSD-6: TX2: I can't get my system to boot with the TX2plus card, as BTX crashes. (Reported here, but unfortunately no solution found.) SIL3112: My mainboard (GA-8KNXP) has an onboard SIL3112 controller, and it is useless. It locks up randomly. Maybe I should try my luck with a 3ware card. Ben ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:28:49PM +0200, Ben Stuyts wrote: I'd vote against a TX2 or SIL3112 based solution on FreeBSD-6: TX2: I can't get my system to boot with the TX2plus card, as BTX crashes. (Reported here, but unfortunately no solution found.) SIL3112: My mainboard (GA-8KNXP) has an onboard SIL3112 controller, and it is useless. It locks up randomly. I recommend almost the opposite-- the Promise TX4 cards seem pretty nice, and under moderate loads I don't see any problems. However, I still haven't located the issue with dropped drives being able to be reprobed. As far as the Sil3112 chips go, I'm using them everywhere and they work quite well. Sometimes less is more. I suspect those random lockups are related to the mainboard and not the chip itself, but others have reported problems with these chips-- I have yet to witness any of the reported problems. -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:06:44PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: I have a fairly nice dual-xeon Supermicro 1U that needs some parts. It has onboard PATA and I'd like to throw some SATA drives in and get an SATA backplane for it (machine has hot swap bays, it's missing any sort of backplane). I'll need to put some kind of SATA controller in there. What can I buy that's known to be very stable under 6.2? I recall that in the past some onboard SATA controllers were a little sketchy... I had fought with some controllers for about 4 month, so I just can tell about my experience. SIL3112 - doesnt work with more than 1 disk. Promise FastTrak TX2300: in 5.*-branch it works worse than SIL3112, it reboot or freezing system. But! At 6.1 I really can sleep well. It works, nice and quiet, for now: atapci0: Promise PDC20771 SATA300 controller port 0xdc00-0xdc7f,0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xff8ff000-0xff8f,0xff8c-0xff8d irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci1 uname: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p11 #0: Wed Dec 20 21:48:32 MSK 2006 uptime: 1:43 up 151 days, 14:16, 5 users Constantly read: 1,5Mbytes (10Mbps upload almost 24/7) for all this time. I dont go to 6.2 yet, so I'm not sure, how it will be on it. That for cheap controllers. As for more price: amr0: LSILogic MegaRAID SATA 150-6D Firmware 713N, BIOS G119, 64MB RAM Works without *any* troubles 102 days from last reboot + 1,5 year until last reboot =) 6 drives, mysql... but price surely different =) -- Anton ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Tim Aslat wrote: In the immortal words of Adriaan de Groot on 05/19/07 18:26: Various Promise controllers (TX2, TX4, 4302) fall in the high end of that range, as do (PCI 2-port) SiI 3112 controllers. There's also the SiI 3124 (PCI-X 4-port) and SiI 3132 (PCIe x1 2-port) but those are in -CURRENT only or you need to MFC them yourself (I can give you a tarball of that, but obviously those are all way off the supported track). Those SiI cards will go for about $30, I think. I'm running (well, trying to) the TX2 card from Promise but I've had no end of trouble lately with it losing drives. I'm actually suspecting the mainboard as the board has been suspect for some time, but since this is a backup server I was hoping I might have gotten away with it. Alas, in the gmirror raid configuration I have, I regularly lose at least one and sometimes both drives, and my only option is to power off the machine and restart. This problem has been getting progressively worse now over the past couple of weeks, and I'm not sure if it's the controller or the mainboard. Anyone else having this problem? I've had drives go bad, such that upon powerup, the Promise controller BIOS wouldn't even see the drive. And later, as the drive got closer to death, it started making the *other* drive on the same IDE cable also fail. Removing the dying/dead drive from the cable made the other drive work again. Incidentally, the machine is running a reasonably recent version of FreeNAS (based on 6.2 Release) 1G Ram and p4 CPU. I don't know offhand the mainboard spec but I can find out if it's needed. Hopefully someone can tell me it's the mainboard rather than the controller, since it's going to be easier getting a new mainboard. I'd look into the possible need to replace one of your disk drives... Gary ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Saturday 19 May 2007 01:34:01 Charles Sprickman wrote: Looking to spend under $70 or so, which I'm guessing is a pretty high ceiling for a non-RAID card. Various Promise controllers (TX2, TX4, 4302) fall in the high end of that range, as do (PCI 2-port) SiI 3112 controllers. There's also the SiI 3124 (PCI-X 4-port) and SiI 3132 (PCIe x1 2-port) but those are in -CURRENT only or you need to MFC them yourself (I can give you a tarball of that, but obviously those are all way off the supported track). Those SiI cards will go for about $30, I think. ICH is -- unless Intel has suddenly started packaging them on discrete cards -- probably not an option. -- KDE Quality Team http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/ GPG: FEA2 A3FEhttp://people.fruitsalad.org/adridg/ It is impossible to make an emphatic point with only two arms. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recommended SATA controllers
Hi all, I have a fairly nice dual-xeon Supermicro 1U that needs some parts. It has onboard PATA and I'd like to throw some SATA drives in and get an SATA backplane for it (machine has hot swap bays, it's missing any sort of backplane). I'll need to put some kind of SATA controller in there. What can I buy that's known to be very stable under 6.2? I recall that in the past some onboard SATA controllers were a little sketchy... Thanks, Charles ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi all, I have a fairly nice dual-xeon Supermicro 1U that needs some parts. It has onboard PATA and I'd like to throw some SATA drives in and get an SATA backplane for it (machine has hot swap bays, it's missing any sort of backplane). I'll need to put some kind of SATA controller in there. What can I buy that's known to be very stable under 6.2? I recall that in the past some onboard SATA controllers were a little sketchy... I find that the Intel series (ICH) controllers are solid and have good support (i.e. Hot swap) ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Looking for some form of SATA controller with good support. Currently running FreeBSD 6.2. Bonus points if it also works well with NetBSD Linux (machine triple boots). I don't need RAID. Has there been any progress getting a driver working for Silicon Image 3124? Or any SATA controller with NCQ? Do any of the USB to SATA controllers work well under FreeBSD? Or 1394/firewire to SATA? PCI slots are full. PCIe-x1, USB-2, firewire-400 available. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
