From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 01:11:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7842516A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:11:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jam.adverticum.net (jam.adverticum.net [195.228.75.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380E543D3F for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:11:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from feczo@geek.hu) Received: from wakumbi.prim.hu (wakumbi.prim.hu [195.228.75.115]) by jam.adverticum.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E582EABD55 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 02:10:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from www-data by wakumbi.prim.hu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CSmQs-00016Z-00 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 02:10:26 +0100 Received: from ns.siodigit.hu [194.143.225.126] by www-data with webmail (PrimPosta); Sat, Nov 13 2:10:26 2004 +0100 (CET) From: "Feczak Szabolcs" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Errors-To: feczo@geek.hu X-Sender: feczo@geek.hu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: PrimPosta Sender: feczo@geek.hu Message-Id: Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 02:10:26 +0100 Subject: best hardware for SATA on 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Feczak Szabolcs List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:11:17 -0000 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 ?