Non-raid PCIe SATA controller with 8 ports?

2007-06-01 Thread Jean-Pierre PHILIPPE
is there any PCIe SATA controller with 8 ports that has decent FreeBSD drivers, including NCQ, and decent performance on the level of the ICH or Nvidia onboard ports? I don't need hardware RAID. I suppose I can use an 8-port Areca as a dumb controller, but that's kinda wastish. What do you thi

motherboard socket am2 with lot of sata II

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Pierre PHILIPPE
Hello I'm search a motherboard compatible freebsd 6.2 i386 with socket am2, the maximum of sata II connectors. I want mount a file server with freenas. I found the EPoX EP-MF570SLI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813123005 but is it compatible with freebsd 6.2 i386 ? __