From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 12 04:15:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF7B816A402 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 04:15:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from schitzo.solgatos.com (pool-71-117-239-32.ptldor.fios.verizon.net [71.117.239.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C607113C459 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 04:15:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from schitzo.solgatos.com (localhost.home.localnet [127.0.0.1]) by schitzo.solgatos.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4C405pU022051 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 21:00:05 -0700 Received: from sopwith.solgatos.com (uucp@localhost) by schitzo.solgatos.com (8.13.8/8.13.4/Submit) with UUCP id l4C405AF022048 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 21:00:05 -0700 Received: from localhost by sopwith.solgatos.com (8.8.8/6.24) id DAA05116; Sat, 12 May 2007 03:49:06 GMT Message-Id: <200705120349.DAA05116@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 20:49:06 +0100 From: Dieter Subject: Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 04:15:15 -0000 > 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= ... > I have tried several different SATA cables (since in other contexts > with other controllers these messages were supposedly often indicative > of bad cabling). Are you seeing this same problem on both the Promise and the Silicon Image? Have you tried a different brand of disk? Some combinations of controller and disk don't work correctly. I have a Silicon Image 3512 that works fine with NetBSD and Seagate drives. Only 2 ports though, and not as fast as it could be. I haven't tried it with FreeBSD. I posted a similar question Wed on -hardware and haven't gotten any responses. Interesting that all I've seen are discussions of RAID controllers and suddenly 2 non-RAID queries in 2 days. } 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 NCQ? } } Do any of the USB to SATA controllers work well under FreeBSD? } Or 1394/firewire to SATA? } } PCI slots are full. PCIe-x1, USB-2, firewire-400 available. 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.