Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:39:33 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: "Derrick T. Woolworth" <dwoolworth@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA300 Controllers Message-ID: <83074666@serv3.int.kfs.ru> In-Reply-To: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com> (Derrick T. Woolworth's message of "Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:02:55 -0500") References: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:02:55 -0500 Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: > Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been > trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a MSI I have an nForce4 built-in card on amd64 motherboard and use it as a testing machine with 6.1-STABLE/7.0-CURRENT amd64/i386 worlds. Everyting is fine so far (crossing fingers). > K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation hangs as soon as it > sees ad4. I've also tried using an Adaptec 1210SA controller and had zero > results. I've read that the chipset on this controller is not very good - > forces serialized access to the controller's channels??? Nevertheless, I've > got a K8N Diamond motherboard on a workstation and I was able to at least > "start" the 6.1 installation. I have no idea if its stable. At this point, > I'd settle for just knowing "which" SATA300 controller to use that will work > successfully and "well" with FreeBSD 6.0 OR 6.1. Another question, would I > have more success installing 6.0 and then upgrading the kernel and > recompiling with a build-world? > I'm currently trying to build a moderate large system with 4 presentation > servers, 2 database servers and one large storage system using NFS mapped to > ~1.2 terrabyte of SATA disks (4x Maxtor 500GB 7200 RPM disks w/RAID5 > config). Any suggestions? WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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