Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:17:36 +0100 From: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> Subject: Re: PCI-X SATA Card + Server Recommendation Message-ID: <200810281517.37226.groot@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0810261502011.4630@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> References: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0810260112010.4630@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <20081026125017.GA88016@icarus.home.lan> <Pine.OSX.4.64.0810261502011.4630@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
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[ re-visiting this thread ] On Sunday 26 October 2008, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > Stay away from this card. Jeremy, any specific reasons for that? Yes, it's a low-end piece of crap consumer electronics, but as a straightforward 4-port SATA card it seems to do well enough. It's just part of ata(4) and one of the ones I've got has been up for 395 days driving striped mirrored GEOMs under reasonable (but certainly not high) load. > Will do. Google was very unhelpful with finding info on Silicon Image and > FreeBSD, so I thank you for that. Strange. They're supported out of the box in ata(4) now. The right search string would have been "sii 3124 driver freebsd" which turns up some of my older work on it, or http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html which will get you the ata(4) manpage which now lists 3124 and 3132. Again, this is a low end cheap-ass SATA card. Unlike the RTL 8139 it doesn't "redefine the notion of low-end", but it seems to get the job done. -- These are your friends - Adem GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot
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