Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:01:38 -0500 From: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com> To: hank@yerpso.net,freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which PCI SATA controller? Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060220155742.07ae3e08@tellurian.com> In-Reply-To: <20060220205858.GA25219@menard> References: <20060220180512.GA11842@menard> <20060220205858.GA25219@menard>
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3Ware cards will work in a 32 bit PCI slot. They typically support both 32 bit and 64 bit slots. I researched this before I bought one. Actually, there are benchmark results out there comparing the difference of a 32 bit vs 64 bit PCI slot. Just be sure you have a motherboard that is known to play nice with them. I had one once with a motherboard and it ran 1/10th the speed of my onboard Si3112A in any operating system (FreeBSD, Linux, Windows XP). 3Ware had little explanation after I contacted them other than a board incompatibility (this was an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe). I sold the card to someone whom it worked much better for. Still can't run FreeBSD on my home system as a result as I'm doing RAID 0 on some Raptor drives and want to dual boot with Windows... Next time I replace my hardware I'll look into something a little more FreeBSD friendly. At 03:58 PM 2/20/2006, hank@yerpso.net wrote: >Sorry ... just to clarify, this would be running 6.0 and it needs to be >a 32bit card ... so as awesome as 3ware cards might be, it does me >little good ... > >On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:05:12PM -0600, Hank Marquardt wrote: > > So I'm having similar issues to others with gmirror and SATA throwing > > DMA WRITE failures under load ... In my searching I"ve found a few > > references to the Sil3112 chipset being an issue and it's what's in my > > cheapy Adaptec card ... > > > > So if I want to proceed, what is a good PCI SATA controller? > > > > -- > > Hank Marquardt <hank@yerpso.net> > > GPG Id: 2BB5E60C > > Fingerprint: D807 61BC FD18 370A AC1D 3EDF 2BF9 8A2D 2BB5 E60C > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >Hank Marquardt <hank@yerpso.net> >http://web.yerpso.net >GPG Id: 2BB5E60C >Fingerprint: D807 61BC FD18 370A AC1D 3EDF 2BF9 8A2D 2BB5 E60C >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Vinny Abello Network Engineer Server Management vinny@tellurian.com (973)300-9211 x 125 (973)940-6125 (Direct) PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear" -- Mark Twain
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