Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-24 Thread vladimir konrad
> > 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 an

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-22 Thread Rick C. Petty
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

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-22 Thread vladimir konrad
> 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 Desc

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-22 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 22 May 2007, at 00:02, Tim Aslat wrote: In the immortal words of Gary Corcoran on 05/22/07 08:31: 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* dri

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-21 Thread Gary Corcoran
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 -CURR

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-21 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Gary Corcoran on 05/22/07 08:31: 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 dy

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-21 Thread Tim Aslat
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 ne

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-21 Thread Anton
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 > b

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-21 Thread Rick C. Petty
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-8KN

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-21 Thread Ben Stuyts
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

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
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

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-19 Thread Adriaan de Groot
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 t

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-18 Thread Mike Jakubik
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

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Francisco Reyes wrote: Charles Sprickman writes: 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... If you need RAID 3ware ca

Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-18 Thread Randy Bush
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Re: Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-18 Thread Francisco Reyes
Charles Sprickman writes: 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... If you need RAID 3ware cards are a possible option. Althrough I rarely

Recommended SATA controllers

2007-05-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
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.

Recommended SATA controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Dieter
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 N