Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

Hello, I'm looking for a cheap non-RAID SATA II PCIe card, with 4 SATA ports, to plug into a FreeBSD 6.4 box. The Adaptec 1405 (ASC-1405) seems perfect to me, but it also seems unsupported by FreeBSD. The Adaptec web site is not sure about the support either: FreeBSD supported according to

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

Patrick Proniewski wrote: > Any idea about the FreeBSD support for Adaptec 1405 (ASC-1405)? I doubt. It is more SAS then SATA card. > Any PCIe card suggestion is appreciated. FreeBSD 6.x is already legacy. If you are building something new, you should look forward. What I have tested: - SiI3124-

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

Alexander Motin wrote: > Patrick Proniewski wrote: >> Any idea about the FreeBSD support for Adaptec 1405 (ASC-1405)? > > I doubt. It is more SAS then SATA card. > >> Any PCIe card suggestion is appreciated. > > FreeBSD 6.x is already legacy. If you are building something new, you > should look

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

On 13 nov. 2009, at 21:00, Alexander Motin wrote: Patrick Proniewski wrote: Any idea about the FreeBSD support for Adaptec 1405 (ASC-1405)? I doubt. It is more SAS then SATA card. As far as I can say, SAS controler are SATA compliant. In this particular case, the description from Adaptec re

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

Patrick Proniewski wrote: > PCI-x and PCI are not an option for me. > In fact, everything comes from the fact my system behaves strangely from > time to time. > Long explanation here: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2007-June/004541.html > > This problem disappeared for a lon

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

On 13 nov. 2009, at 23:27, Alexander Motin wrote: I am not sure it is productive way. There is too many assumptions. Even if it fix problems with disk, I am not sure your WiFi will work after that. Even if assume that problem is localized inside south bridge (you can't know that), there cou

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

On 13 nov. 2009, at 21:03, Alexander Motin wrote: Alexander Motin wrote: Patrick Proniewski wrote: Any PCIe card suggestion is appreciated. FreeBSD 6.x is already legacy. If you are building something new, you should look forward. What I have tested: - SiI3124-based - fast and functional. It

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

Patrick Proniewski wrote: > On 13 nov. 2009, at 21:03, Alexander Motin wrote: > >> Alexander Motin wrote: >>> Patrick Proniewski wrote: Any PCIe card suggestion is appreciated. >>> >>> FreeBSD 6.x is already legacy. If you are building something new, you >>> should look forward. What I have t

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

On 15 nov. 2009, at 16:38, Alexander Motin wrote: I've just found this: Does anybody has given this card a try? Unfortunately I can't find the brand of the chip they are using… Looking on picture, I would surmise it ca

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

>> - SiI3124-based - fast and functional. It is actually PCI-X one, but >> there are many boards with built-in PCIe bridges. Do any of these fit in a x1 slot? >> - two SiI3132-based (Adaptec 1420SA and many others) - as cheap PCIe x1 >> alternative (max 150MB/s per card). These two better support

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

On 15 nov. 2009, at 22:42, Dieter wrote: 7.x doesn't support NCQ either. :-( I'm waiting impatiently for 8.0 to come out. as I need NCQ. Speaking of which, I've read that some controller/disk combinations have problems with NCQ? Is there a way to turn NCQ on/off on a per-disk basis? Are yo

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

on 16/11/2009 09:16 Patrick Proniewski said the following: > On 15 nov. 2009, at 22:42, Dieter wrote: > >> 7.x doesn't support NCQ either. :-( I'm waiting impatiently for >> 8.0 to come out. as I need NCQ. Speaking of which, I've read that >> some controller/disk combinations have problems with

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

Dieter wrote: >>> - SiI3124-based - fast and functional. It is actually PCI-X one, but >>> there are many boards with built-in PCIe bridges. > > Do any of these fit in a x1 slot? I was surprised, but yes. And as expected, bus limits it performance badly. But it is still works much faster then 313

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

In message <4b0176e7.7080...@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin writes: > >>> - SiI3124-based - fast and functional. It is actually PCI-X one, but > >>> there are many boards with built-in PCIe bridges. > > > > Do any of these fit in a x1 slot? > > I was surprised, but yes. My google-fu fails me. A

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

In message <511ceec9-7721-4e51-ad7c-a98e59299...@patpro.net>, Patrick Proniewski writes: > I've just found this: > > > Does anybody has given this card a try? > Unfortunately I can't find the brand of the chip they are usi

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

Dieter wrote: > In message <4b0176e7.7080...@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin writes: > - SiI3124-based - fast and functional. It is actually PCI-X one, but > there are many boards with built-in PCIe bridges. >>> Do any of these fit in a x1 slot? >> I was surprised, but yes. > > My google-fu

PCIe-x1 SATA controllers (was: Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD )

In message <4b027c3e.7020...@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin writes: > > - SiI3124-based - fast and functional. It is actually PCI-X one, but > > there are many boards with built-in PCIe bridges. > >>> Do any of these fit in a x1 slot? > >> I was surprised, but yes. > > > > My google-fu fail

Re: PCIe-x1 SATA controllers (was: Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD )

Dieter wrote: >>From what I can see, FreeBSD does not support the Marvell 88SE61xx > SATA controllers? > > For example, the SATA2-PCIE1x12 has 4 SATA ports + 1 PATA channel, > for US$30.13 > http://www.span.com/product_info.php?cPath=24_714_2502&products_id=16957 > There is a similar SATA2-PCIE1X1