Still looking encouraging with 7 drives plugged in. I have had a couple
of issues that may or may not have anything to do with the controller
support. I will send an update in a few days or so when I know more.
So it's been a while now and though I had a couple of weird pauses
(console work,
I'm definitely interested in hearing your results.
Still looking encouraging with 7 drives plugged in. I have had a couple
of issues that may or may not have anything to do with the controller
support. I will send an update in a few days or so when I know more.
Also, what is the
model of the
WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=a number
please post dmesg!
http://distfiles.scode.org/mlref/freebsd-dmesg-promise-tx4-7current.tx
Be aware that some disk drives do the wrong thing. Western Digital desktop
disks, for example, don't simply remap a sector when
Are you seeing this same problem on both the Promise and the Silicon
Image?
No; with the Silicon Image I am getting the timeouts that everyone
else is getting (google(freebsd sil3112 timeout).
Have you tried a different brand of disk? Some combinations of
controller and disk don't work
My main candidate is the AOC-SAT2-MV8. Can anyone offer input on the
stability of this card in FreeBSD? It would be perfect because it is
priced very well.
I ended up getting an AOC-SAT2-MV8. Preliminary results are encouraging
but I have not yet run with it for that long... I'll try to
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:24:34PM +0200, Peter Schuller wrote:
My main candidate is the AOC-SAT2-MV8. Can anyone offer input on the
stability of this card in FreeBSD? It would be perfect because it is
priced very well.
I ended up getting an AOC-SAT2-MV8. Preliminary results are
If I use up a slot, I'd like at least 4 ports and NCQ.
If FreeBSD doesn't have NCQ support yet I might just get a
USB or FW to SATA adapter or two and wait for NCQ.
NCQ is nice but I don't *really* care. I just want something that works
at all :) Of course I would want NCQ if it was a
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Promise are supposed to be one
after spending time and money on several Promise and Sillicon Image
based cards that don't work properly,
WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=a number
...
I have tried several different SATA cables (since in other contexts
with other controllers these messages were
* Peter Schuller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
after spending time and money on several Promise and Sillicon Image
based cards that don't work properly, I am still in desperate need of a
stable SATA controller.
Promise are supposed to be one of the better makes when it comes to
documentation and
Promise are supposed to be one of the better makes when it comes to
documentation and open source support,
Yes, that was my impression prior to purchasing the two TX4:s.
what problems are you seeing?
I can easily (dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=$((1024*1024)) count=500)
trigger within a few
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