From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 6 01:23:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4222516A4DA; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 01:23:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drechsau@Geeks.ORG) Received: from mail.geeks.org (jacobs.Geeks.ORG [204.153.247.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31B243D46; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 01:23:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drechsau@Geeks.ORG) Received: by mail.geeks.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9EA2E15905A; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:23:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:23:57 -0500 From: Mike Horwath To: "Derrick T. Woolworth" Message-ID: <20060706012357.GB80086@Geeks.ORG> Mail-Followup-To: "Derrick T. Woolworth" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com> X-PGP-Fingerprint: D8 24 CC E6 47 5F E4 60 BF B7 6E FA BF C7 6E C5 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 6A89 E78A B8B1 69D9 8CDB E966 4A5A C3F9 A1B0 C381 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:38:54 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA300 Controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:23:59 -0000 On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: > Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... That's okay, I am not on all and I'll create some bounces, I am sure. > 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 results. I've read that the > chipset on this controller is not very good - forces serialized > access to the controller's channels??? Nevertheless, I've got a K8N > Diamond motherboard on a workstation and I was able to at least > "start" the 6.1 installation. I have no idea if its stable. At > this point, I'd settle for just knowing "which" SATA300 controller > to use that will work successfully and "well" with FreeBSD 6.0 OR > 6.1. Another question, would I have more success installing 6.0 and > then upgrading the kernel and recompiling with a build-world? I am running 6.0 and 6.1 systems (-STABLE) with both ARECA 12xx cards and 3WARE/AMCC 9550SX cards. Neither are cheap, but they are doing the job and are in use in binary spoolers for news. > I'm currently trying to build a moderate large system with 4 presentation > servers, 2 database servers and one large storage system using NFS mapped to > ~1.2 terrabyte of SATA disks (4x Maxtor 500GB 7200 RPM disks w/RAID5 > config). Any suggestions? Up the # of spindles? :) -- Mike Horwath, reachable via drechsau@Geeks.ORG