Re: SATA to PCI cards
Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. Thanks for the hint. Would you tell me why did you choose Promise brand as it's expensive compared to the other brands? Bahman I chose Promise because all of their products I've ever bought have worked for me in disk management. It was a roll of the dice as to it would work or not. Plus, it was the only card the vendor had that I have used for years. Thus, no guarantee for all, but they have worked on sever different motherboards so far and all are running fbsd-6.x (mostly 6.2). I understand. Thanks for your patience. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA to PCI cards
I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. $ uname -a FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I searched the internet and found out that there are SATA to PCI cards for my situation. Is anyone using such cards? Will they cause any problem with FreeBSD 6.2? By the way, I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good SATA to PCI card to buy. I've had a huge sata issue with my promise card since I added two need sata3.0 disks to my two old sata1.5 disks. Turning off smartd seemed to make it go away, however. Never had issues with a promise board before. In the interim I bought a HiPoint, which appears to be the cadillac of sub-$300 cards, but I've yet to tweak the drivers into a functiona state. I also tried one of the $19 cards and was told by this list that they have drivers and appear to work fine, but will corrupt your data bigtime, crash unexpectedly, etc. Mine was a rosewill card, but lots of vendors are using the $19 variants. As I explored the archives I came up with some posts reporting problems with Promise cards, mostly on CURRENT though. Looks like I should search a bit more. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA to PCI cards
From: Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA to PCI cards Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:51:52 +0330 Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. Thanks for the hint. Would you tell me why did you choose Promise brand as it's expensive compared to the other brands? Bahman I chose Promise because all of their products I've ever bought have worked for me in disk management. It was a roll of the dice as to it would work or not. Plus, it was the only card the vendor had that I have used for years. Thus, no guarantee for all, but they have worked on sever different motherboards so far and all are running fbsd-6.x (mostly 6.2). The ones I bought were $72 each and handle 2 satas 150/300. That's the best I can do to help in your case. HTH Jack _ Booking a flight? Know when to buy with airfare predictions on MSN Travel. http://travel.msn.com/Articles/aboutfarecast.aspxocid=T001MSN25A07001 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA to PCI cards
I've had a huge sata issue with my promise card since I added two need sata3.0 disks to my two old sata1.5 disks. Turning off smartd seemed to make it go away, however. Never had issues with a promise board before. In the interim I bought a HiPoint, which appears to be the cadillac of sub-$300 cards, but I've yet to tweak the drivers into a functiona state. I also tried one of the $19 cards and was told by this list that they have drivers and appear to work fine, but will corrupt your data bigtime, crash unexpectedly, etc. Mine was a rosewill card, but lots of vendors are using the $19 variants. Steve On 8/22/07, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. Thanks for the hint. Would you tell me why did you choose Promise brand as it's expensive compared to the other brands? Bahman Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. $ uname -a FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I searched the internet and found out that there are SATA to PCI cards for my situation. Is anyone using such cards? Will they cause any problem with FreeBSD 6.2? By the way, I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good SATA to PCI card to buy. Thanks in advance, Bahman Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. HTH Jack _ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SATA to PCI cards
From: Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SATA to PCI cards Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:39:01 +0330 Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. $ uname -a FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I searched the internet and found out that there are SATA to PCI cards for my situation. Is anyone using such cards? Will they cause any problem with FreeBSD 6.2? By the way, I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good SATA to PCI card to buy. Thanks in advance, Bahman Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. HTH Jack _ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA to PCI cards
Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. Thanks for the hint. Would you tell me why did you choose Promise brand as it's expensive compared to the other brands? Bahman Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. $ uname -a FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I searched the internet and found out that there are SATA to PCI cards for my situation. Is anyone using such cards? Will they cause any problem with FreeBSD 6.2? By the way, I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good SATA to PCI card to buy. Thanks in advance, Bahman Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. HTH Jack _ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SATA to PCI cards
Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. $ uname -a FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I searched the internet and found out that there are SATA to PCI cards for my situation. Is anyone using such cards? Will they cause any problem with FreeBSD 6.2? By the way, I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good SATA to PCI card to buy. Thanks in advance, Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
