Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 00:07:32 -0800 From: MC <rossiya@gmail.com> To: "Markus Dolze" <bsdfan@nurfuerspam.de> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best USB PCI Card Message-ID: <28a99ba50603060007j6efd5e70la51ddce58b786f05@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <23679.1141628284@www047.gmx.net> References: <28a99ba50603051813o18b30df3t1df3e3bb9a9a6347@mail.gmail.com> <23679.1141628284@www047.gmx.net>
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I saw accounts of the NEC uPD 720100 USB 2.0 controller making troubles for the ehci driver last year this time. Sounds like they may be fixed now. I will try out the card see how it goes. I just installed a qemu gentoo linux for the LVM2 "infinite disk" feature and feed qemu the raw da0 ... da3 USB2 drives for a userspace backup system. When archiving is done, I just quit qemu and the disks can stay off for a week. I didn't have much luck passing the USB2 device to qeum as a USB handoff. But it's not needed as qemu takes disk devices with the -hdb -hdc and -hdd options On 3/5/06, Markus Dolze <bsdfan@nurfuerspam.de> wrote: > > > --- Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht --- > > Von: MC <rossiya@gmail.com> > > An: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > > Betreff: Best USB PCI Card > > Datum: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 18:13:22 -0800 > > > > Hi I am shopping for a USB2 PCI card to support 4 or more USB hard > drives. > > I thought to > > get a PCI card rather than an external USB2 hub, which splits the USB2 > > bandwidth. > > Looking through the supported hardware of freebsd6.x there's a big list > of > > supported > > devices, but none that match hardware vendor websites offhand. I see > for > > example > > the ALi 6+2 port USB 2.0 PCI Card with the ALi M573 chipset and VIA > VT6212 > > 4+1 > > Port USB 2.0 PCI Controller Card with the VIA VT6212 chipset. But thes= e > > don't match > > anything on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html > > > > What are the best [most compatible trouble free] USB PCI cards? > > Hi, > > I would not use cards with ALi anymore. I got one and had problems with > it. > When doing high-speed transfers the card resets sometimes. The history of > the windows driver lists a lot of problems fixed in the past. > > I have good experience with a card equipped with a NEC chip. > > Regards > Markus >
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