From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 04:58:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9C716A41F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:58:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from linda-4.paradise.net.nz (bm-4a.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373E543D45 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:58:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp-2.paradise.net.nz ([203.96.152.177]) by linda-4.paradise.net.nz (Paradise.net.nz) with ESMTP id <0IOA0096I8HZ19@linda-4.paradise.net.nz> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:58:47 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (218-101-13-50.paradise.net.nz [218.101.13.50]) by smtp-2.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11200C742A8; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:58:47 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:58:45 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood In-reply-to: <434DD2DE.20704@yahoo.com> To: Ronny Hippler Message-id: <434DE985.8070204@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050726) References: <434DD2DE.20704@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hardware Subject: Re: Raid Cards & mobo X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:58:49 -0000 Ronny Hippler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all! > I am in the early stages of building a new machine to act as a file/web > server newsgroup leacher etc. I know I want to add a raid card and was > looking @ the PROMISE SATAII150 TX4 PCI SATA Controller Card. I am > running 4.10 currently with a TX2 card but looking in the hardware notes > I see only one promise card even listed for 5.4? Has all support been > dropped from FreeBSD for promise cards? Also looking at an ASUS > P4P800S-X anyone know if the sound(ADI AD1888 SoundMAX) and NIC(Realtek > RTL8101L) work in 5.4? I may consider 6.x-Beta if I can get the on board > stuff working. If none of the above are do-able I am open to suggestions > as far as RAID & NIC cards go. I would like to do RAID0+1, and if I have > to buy a separate NIC I would like it to be a Gigabit card. > The Promise cards are all listed using their chip numbers (like PDC20271 say, for a TX2000) in the newer man page for ata(4). This makes identification a little more complex - since without a card to look at it can be hard to find out the chip number! A read of src/sys/dev/ata/ata_chipset.c *may* be helpful. I think the card you are after uses a PDC20622 chip, and is mentioned in 5.4-RELEASE ata_chipset.c, but not ata(4) man page - ran into this myself concerning a SX4060. regards Mark