From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 11:09:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969CA1065672 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:09:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8643E8FC23 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:09:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6597D1CC068; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:09:54 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Anton - Valqk Message-ID: <20080312110954.GA22374@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <47D7B223.6080108@lozenetz.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47D7B223.6080108@lozenetz.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:09:54 -0000 On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:36:19PM +0200, Anton - Valqk wrote: > Hi there group, > I have a P 233MHZ machine running as rouer, > I have attached a second drive for a storage but the IDE controller on the > mother board is very old and slow (UDMA33). > The disk is new and have 16MB cache, but the IDE is very slow and have very > bad performace - about 1.3MB/s. > I want to attach a PCI PATA IDE controller (I'm running 6.3) that will be > rock solid. > can you please recommend me a good card? Many people have had good success (while within a limited budget) with PATA and SATA cards from Promise Technologies. For PATA: http://www.promise.com/product/pd_l3.asp?Product_Layer_ID=PRLA20060911012 For SATA: http://www.promise.com/product/pd_l3.asp?Product_Layer_ID=PRLA20060911010 Two things: 1) Their RAID controllers *also* do JBOD (non-RAID), which means you can use them as a standard non-RAID disks (they'll appear in FreeBSD as adX disks) 2) Their Ultra133 TX2 card works fine on 33MHz PCI bus machines; don't worry about the card being 66MHz, it will downthrottle correctly. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |