Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:10:24 -0600 (CST) From: James Van Artsdalen <james-freebsd-amd64@jrv.org> To: billsf@curacao.n2it.nl Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 29320? Message-ID: <200402030910.i139AOpU031887@bigtex.jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <20040203070905.GA18274@curacao.n2it.nl> (message from Bill Squire on Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:09:05 %2B0100) References: <200402030453.i134rAFC006940@bigtex.jrv.org> <20040203070905.GA18274@curacao.n2it.nl>
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> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:09:05 +0100 > From: Bill Squire <billsf@curacao.n2it.nl> > > Keep hearing about "Win64". Those few I know who develop on that platform > or maintain Windows servers say its quite a farce (remember NT on Alpha?) Well, it is Windows. What can I say? 32-bit Windows makes a good X11 server and it's handy to keep one around for clients who might be scared if they saw vi. I keep a matrix of four disks with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and FreeBSD for testing. It's usually desirable to not report a bug if it happens in all four environments. > Maybe give it a try but i'd suggest a better SCSI host adapter. I'm after a controller that works in all four test environments and can directly address more than 4 GB. I'd prefer serial ATA but there are none yet. SCSI is a last resort. I'm willing to use a different controller. But when two new PCI-X cards fail like this I'm suspicious of the Tyan's AMI BIOS, which I consider suspect. That BIOS might be programming the PCI-X bridge wrongly, hence my curiosity as to whether anyone has gotten the 29320, or any other PCI-X card for that matter, to work in the K8W S2885. > Highpoint apparently supplies FreeBSD > drivers. <http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/brr1540.htm>; I hear > 3ware works well and Promise seems 'promising' for SATA RAID. (and > quite cheap too) Anyone use the Promise SATA 150 TX4 ? That HighPoint cannot directly address more than 4 GB of RAM and I have 8 GB. Likewise for Promise. The 3ware driver may not support 3ware's sATA card and in any case that driver doesn't support more 4 GB (requires the use of bound buffers). HighPoint's Rocket Raid-1820 is PCI-X and probably can address the entire memory space. But this is supposedly based on the Marvel chip and what drivers HighPoint has seem to be binary only, useless. SuperMicro's PCI-X sATA supposedly uses the same chip, without the boot ROM.
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