Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:51:50 +0900 From: Stephane LAPIE <stephane.lapie@darkbsd.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 12 SATA ports via PCI-X slots Message-ID: <4CD90BA6.3010101@darkbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <878w1464ph.wl%rand@meridian-enviro.com> References: <87mxpmtbr8.wl%rand@meridian-enviro.com> <006301cb7e76$d7ea0530$87be0f90$@net> <87aalk65dp.wl%rand@meridian-enviro.com> <878w1464ph.wl%rand@meridian-enviro.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB5C72AC3F031440525FBB25C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am personally using a setup with two of these cards, they usually work fine but you have to pay attention to the following quirks : - If you have a dead disk, and end up having to replace it, sometimes the port just stops answering, and even a hot reboot with BIOS port reinitialization won't fix the problem. As far as my experience goes, I had to do a complete cold reboot to recover the port. - The optional BIOS ROMs don't play nice with other extension cards you might have on a busy system. You might want to disable them and leave the disk initialization to FreeBSD. Given the first very, very annoying quirk in case of disk replacement, I am myself looking for other cards if any better candidates would exist. On 11/08/2010 09:26 AM, Douglas K. Rand wrote: > And I just noticed on the Newegg.com photos of the AOC-SAT2-MV8 that > for disk activity there doesn't seem to be a ground pin for each disk, > just one common ground pin. Which, for me at least, sucks because all > of the disk activity LEDs in my chassis have their own ground wire and > are terminated in duplex headers, not the split headers. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" --=20 Stephane LAPIE, EPITA SRS, Promo 2005 "Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them." --MegaTokyo --------------enigB5C72AC3F031440525FBB25C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzZC6wACgkQ24Ql8u6TF2OUKACg5Mo2PN1xGSTopX/zzS0aZQb/ 07sAoMu9Si4X5lsD+kAHV4vnnGXVMOI9 =RDSn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB5C72AC3F031440525FBB25C--
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