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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:47:12 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        ahebert@pubnix.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA
Message-ID:  <1143186432.2255.10.camel@sos.deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <4422FD48.50400@pubnix.net>
References:  <4422FD48.50400@pubnix.net>

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On Tor, 2006-03-23 at 14:55 -0500, Alain Hebert wrote:
>     Hi,
> 
>     I'm about to invest in some Tyan Transport GT20 B5350G20S2H-LC.
> 
>     But since my epic battle trying to make the Promise Fasttrak 2300TX 
> (PDC20580?) works right in Raid1, 2 weeks ago I'm a bit concern about 
> those new SATA controllers.
> 
>     Myself I have  a PDC20378 in (heavy) production with 5.4-CURRENT and 
> its flawless, I also have a 3ware also in heavy production (way cool but 
> pricy).
> 
>     But I'm wondering if the 6300ESB controller was still stable in 
> 6-CURRENT?

It should be, however hotplug/hotremoval is not supported, so if you can
live without that the work just fine.

>     Anybody need a Promise Fasttrak 2300TX to develop/test/fix?
> 
>     I know that the 6-CURRENT driver wasn't recognizing the Raid config 
> with the 2.5.x firmware, but was ok with the original firmware (2.0.x)

You can always send ATA gear to me and get (better) support that way, in
fact that, and sponsoring time to work on it is *the* way to get ATA
support moving forward as I have limited amounts of spare time.
BTW this has been so for the past 6+ years :)
 
-- 
-Søren




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