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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2007 21:53:06 -0400
From:      Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recommended SATA controllers
Message-ID:  <464E5882.1050105@rogers.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0705181803340.365@gee5.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
References:  <Pine.OSX.4.64.0705181803340.365@gee5.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>

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Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a fairly nice dual-xeon Supermicro 1U that needs some parts.  
> It has onboard PATA and I'd like to throw some SATA drives in and get 
> an SATA backplane for it (machine has hot swap bays, it's missing any 
> sort of backplane).
>
> 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...

I find that the Intel series (ICH) controllers are solid and have good 
support (i.e. Hot swap)





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