From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 18 23:32:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AEF516A401 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 23:32:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3C113C48A for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 23:32:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: (qmail 9322 invoked by uid 0); 18 May 2007 23:32:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gee5.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (216.220.116.154) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 18 May 2007 23:32:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 19:34:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@gee5.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: Francisco Reyes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended SATA controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 23:32:46 -0000 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 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. I use the 3Ware cards, but this is just a personal box, and I've been happy with gmirror on a few other hosts. I want to save a few bucks and also continue to pummel gmirror to see how it holds up... Looking to spend under $70 or so, which I'm guessing is a pretty high ceiling for a non-RAID card. Thanks! Charles