Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:10:40 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Derrick T. Woolworth" <dwoolworth@gmail.com> Subject: Re: SATA300 Controllers Message-ID: <20060706221039.GA3579@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <44AD7FF9.8010405@samsco.org> References: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com> <20060706195504.GA1252@freebie.xs4all.nl> <44AD7FF9.8010405@samsco.org>
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Scott Long wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote.. > > > >>Hello all, > >> > >>Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... > >> > >>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 > >>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 > > > > > >Well, just as a datapoint this works fine for me: > > > >wb@freebie ~: dmesg|grep -i Prom > >atapci0: <Promise PDC20771 SATA300 controller> port > >0xd480-0xd4ff,0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf7ff6000-0xf7ff6fff,0xf7fa0000-0xf7fbffff > >irq 21 at device 13.0 on pci2 > >ar0: 238475MB <Promise Fasttrak RAID1> status: READY > >wb@freebie ~: uname -a > >FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed Jun 14 > >22:01:33 CEST 2006 root@freebie.xs4all.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBIE > >i386 > > > > Promise has a good relationship with FreeBSD, I would expect their > controllers to work pretty well. Yup. I cleared this TX2200 (IIRC) card with Soren first before I ordered it. It only has SATA150 disks connected to it though, I do not own SATA300 drives. All in all the whole thing works fine for me. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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