From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 26 13:42:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD87D16A418 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r17fbsd@xxiii.com) Received: from cartman.xxiii.com (cartman.xxiii.com [208.62.177.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F0713C4D3 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r17fbsd@xxiii.com) Received: from [172.23.23.190] (lan23.xxiii.com [208.62.177.50]) by cartman.xxiii.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6QDfMvU012955; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:41:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from r17fbsd@xxiii.com) Message-ID: <46A8A481.6070705@xxiii.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:41:21 -0400 From: Rob User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Key References: <46A8710F.9010404@cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <46A8710F.9010404@cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec AAR-1220SA / AAR-1430SA X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:42:28 -0000 Christopher Key wrote: > I'm trying to establish whether I can expect the Adaptec AAR-1220SA or > AAR-1430SA SATA cards to work with 6.2. They're not on the list of > supported hardware, which does include a lot of the other Adaptec Some (maybe all?) of the Adaptec SATA cards used a Silicon Image "SiI" chipset, and were completely flaky unreliable junk under FBSD (the "DMA timeout" error mentioned previously.) I think the ata developer gave up on them, thus their exclusion from the hardware list. Check Adaptec's specs and see if you can find the chip set used. -RW