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From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
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Subject: Re: SATA300 Controllers
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Scott Long wrote..
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote..
> >
> >>Hello all,
> >>
> >>Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists...
> >>
> >>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
> >
> >
> >Well, just as a datapoint this works fine for me:
> >
> >wb@freebie ~: dmesg|grep -i Prom
> >atapci0: <Promise PDC20771 SATA300 controller> port
> >0xd480-0xd4ff,0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf7ff6000-0xf7ff6fff,0xf7fa0000-0xf7fbffff
> >irq 21 at device 13.0 on pci2
> >ar0: 238475MB <Promise Fasttrak RAID1> status: READY
> >wb@freebie ~: uname -a
> >FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed Jun 14
> >22:01:33 CEST 2006     root@freebie.xs4all.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBIE
> >i386
> >
> 
> Promise has a good relationship with FreeBSD, I would expect their 
> controllers to work pretty well.

Yup.  I cleared this TX2200 (IIRC) card with Soren first before I ordered
it.  It only has SATA150 disks connected to it though, I do not own
SATA300 drives.  All in all the whole thing works fine for me.

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org