Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:04:54 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.org> To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA300 Controllers Message-ID: <44AE23B6.7000607@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060706230808.GA55294@megan.kiwi-computer.com> References: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com> <20060706195504.GA1252@freebie.xs4all.nl> <44AD7FF9.8010405@samsco.org> <20060706230808.GA55294@megan.kiwi-computer.com>
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Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Scott Long 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 >>>> 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 >>>> >> Promise has a good relationship with FreeBSD, I would expect their >> controllers to work pretty well. >> > > I'm using a few "Promise PDC40718 SATA300 controller" with identical > SATA300 drives and it seems to work well. My only gripe is the channels > are misnumbered: > port #1 maps to channel 3 > port #2 maps to channel 1 > port #3 maps to channel 0 > port #4 maps to channel 2 > > I had to use the serial numbers to make sure I was writing on the correct > drives, so that was annoying. > Actually its the channel numbering printed on the card thats flawed, it doesn't match the physical channel numbers that the chip uses (and hence ATA channel numbers). I have no idea why they did that on some of their controllers, but I suspect historical reasons as they older controllers had the physical connectors in that order (3 1 0 2), but the guy that did the silkscreen layout probably ordered them "nicely" at some point :) -Søren
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