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Subject: Re: Recommended SATA controllers
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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 have any problems with 3ware cards a couple of times 
(Freebsd 6.2) the controller has either frozen or restarted the machine. 
However this has been fairly rare.