From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 6 08:39:36 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 66EB516A4DA; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:39:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ns.kfs.ru) Received: from ns.kfs.ru (kfs.kfs.ru [62.183.117.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEFEB43D45; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:39:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsam@ns.kfs.ru) Received: from bsam by ns.kfs.ru with local (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1FyPOX-0006c1-Tj; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:39:33 +0400 To: "Derrick T. Woolworth" References: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:39:33 +0400 In-Reply-To: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com> (Derrick T. Woolworth's message of "Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:02:55 -0500") Message-ID: <83074666@serv3.int.kfs.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: "Boris B. Samorodov" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:54:46 +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 08:39:36 -0000 On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:02:55 -0500 Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: > 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 I have an nForce4 built-in card on amd64 motherboard and use it as a testing machine with 6.1-STABLE/7.0-CURRENT amd64/i386 worlds. Everyting is fine so far (crossing fingers). > 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'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? WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve