Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 20:49:06 +0100 From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations Message-ID: <200705120349.DAA05116@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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> after spending time and money on several Promise and Sillicon Image > based cards that don't work properly, > WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=<a number> ... > I have tried several different SATA cables (since in other contexts > with other controllers these messages were supposedly often indicative > of bad cabling). Are you seeing this same problem on both the Promise and the Silicon Image? Have you tried a different brand of disk? Some combinations of controller and disk don't work correctly. I have a Silicon Image 3512 that works fine with NetBSD and Seagate drives. Only 2 ports though, and not as fast as it could be. I haven't tried it with FreeBSD. I posted a similar question Wed on -hardware and haven't gotten any responses. Interesting that all I've seen are discussions of RAID controllers and suddenly 2 non-RAID queries in 2 days. } Looking for some form of SATA controller with good support. } Currently running FreeBSD 6.2. Bonus points if it also works well } with NetBSD & Linux (machine triple boots). I don't need RAID. } } Has there been any progress getting a driver working for Silicon Image 3124? } } Or any SATA controller with NCQ? } } Do any of the USB to SATA controllers work well under FreeBSD? } Or 1394/firewire to SATA? } } PCI slots are full. PCIe-x1, USB-2, firewire-400 available. If I use up a slot, I'd like at least 4 ports and NCQ. If FreeBSD doesn't have NCQ support yet I might just get a USB or FW to SATA adapter or two and wait for NCQ.
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