From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 19 02:21:51 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 0871C16A401 for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 02:21:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from smtp109.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp109.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.207]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9587513C447 for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 02:21:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 33462 invoked from network); 19 May 2007 01:55:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=218P3+uFDTGOfyW5sBd99i+VvgUQ6xYUCekMr2aeGnW4L0Doxmqc6I7tpBhIaL7Gv4JFqIdmDLVRMQAJugxDmmaPAFeEY+RzpLBIkU8T/9Hj2AkhG9y2NeAIXuA1xMqTA6Tg4Ztdtfs7X0/5yyFj+3F0w2YYjB0oF8MdBusy978= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.0.165?) (mikej@rogers.com@99.244.62.78 with plain) by smtp109.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 May 2007 01:55:10 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 9GU2PEQVM1lFfMi8Vt_4JRFK4Fx4gum6ODZ7demZ_mrOpoQ998J0dE2KShZQIaTpNw-- Message-ID: <464E5882.1050105@rogers.com> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 21:53:06 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Sprickman References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sat, 19 May 2007 02:21:51 -0000 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)