From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 12 8:49:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C2837B401; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C8F43FAF; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:49:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1CGnh2T086883; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:49:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030212115316.05b50340@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:53:54 -0500 To: Jason Andresen , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Serial ATA In-Reply-To: <3E4A7951.4020607@mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: By Sentex Communications (lava/20020517) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The HighPoint might work. sos@freebsd.org would know for sure. ---Mike At 11:41 AM 12/02/2003 -0500, Jason Andresen wrote: >Hello, > Does anybody know if any Serial ATA cards are supported in > FreeBSD? In particular, is the 4 port Promise SATA150 TX4 supported? > >I don't see anything in the hardware list, but has anybody had any luck >with these cards? > >My thought on this matter was to avoid the PCI interrupt issues by just >using one of those somewhat inexpensive Serial ATA cards with 4+ ports and >Serial->Parallel ATA converters on the HDDs (which aren't as inexpensive >as I'd like but still within reason). Apparently nobody makes an >affordable 4 port Parallel ATA controller, they're all pricy RAID solutions. > >-- > \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org > |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer >_| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message