Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 02:10:26 +0100 From: "Feczak Szabolcs" <feczo@geek.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: best hardware for SATA on 5.3 Message-ID: <E1CSmQs-00016Z-00@wakumbi.prim.hu>
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I have an Abit NF7 board and I have purchased 2 SATA hard disk, and extended the board with an STLab card wich uses the Sil 3112A chip. This card has an OTP EPROM, so bios version 4.2.12 is not updateable. I have TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors during drive access. I have read in the archives that this controller is a piece of crap, so I have decided to get rid of it and buy another pci extension card or another motherboard, which has onboard sata ports. Looks like another motherboard is a better choice, since I need 2 ports and a these kind of SATA IO cards are nearly in the same pricerange as a completly new motherboard. I thought about Asus A7V600, but I also read that someone had problems with the onboard VIA 8237 SATA150 controller as well on 5.2.1 So my question is: What should I buy to be sure that I will not run into problems but smoothly use my two SATA hard drive on 5.3 Release or Stable ?
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