From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 12:19:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CC51065670 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:19:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from smeltpunt.science.ru.nl (smeltpunt.science.ru.nl [131.174.16.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40DA8FC24 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:19:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from [10.0.0.5] ([81.69.166.221]) (authen=adridg) by smeltpunt.science.ru.nl (8.13.7/5.28) with ESMTP id m9SCJOZU004509; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:19:25 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:17:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20081026125017.GA88016@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810281517.37226.groot@kde.org> Cc: Charles Sprickman Subject: Re: PCI-X SATA Card + Server Recommendation 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: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:19:30 -0000 [ 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=20 consumer electronics, but as a straightforward 4-port SATA card it seems to= =20 do well enough. It's just part of ata(4) and one of the ones I've got has=20 been up for 395 days driving striped mirrored GEOMs under reasonable (but=20 certainly not high) load. > Will do. =A0Google 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 tur= ns=20 up some of my older work on it, or=20 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Data&apropos=3D0&sektion=3D4&manp= ath=3DFreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=3Dhtml 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=20 doesn't "redefine the notion of low-end", but it seems to get the job done. =2D-=20 These are your friends - Adem GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot