From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 08:36:23 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 3590616A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:36:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.kuehlbox.de (ns1.kuehlbox.de [62.159.47.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279A243D1D for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:36:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@kuehlbox.de) Received: (qmail 58157 invoked by uid 89); 22 Nov 2004 08:37:12 -0000 Received: from 62.159.47.194 by selenium.kuehlbox.de (envelope-from , uid 89) with qmail-scanner-1.24st Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.33.66?) (webmaster@kuehlbox.de@62.159.47.194) by www.kuehlbox.de with SMTP; 22 Nov 2004 08:37:12 -0000 Message-ID: <41A1A461.5020409@kuehlbox.de> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:33:37 +0100 From: Stephan Fiebrandt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sebastian Holmqvist References: <52aaba2404112006235fb63988@mail.gmail.com> <419F56EB.4010302@kuehlbox.de> <52aaba24041120064424b87cce@mail.gmail.com> <52aaba2404112109373f130bd8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52aaba2404112109373f130bd8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Sata-controller card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:36:23 -0000 Sebastian Holmqvist wrote: >On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:44:12 +0100, Sebastian Holmqvist > wrote: > > >>On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:38:35 +0100, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Sebastian Holmqvist wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Had some bad experience with my previous one: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus, >>>>so I would like some tips. >>>>Two harddrives will be attached for now, maybe more later. >>>>Alot of data transfer. >>>> >>>>I have an 5.3-can running. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>3ware SATA controller cards. These are "true" RAID controller cards >>>instead of the tons of "ata" controllers with bios extentions witch are >>>nothing else than a "softwareraid". 3ware cont. also preserve your CPU >>>from high load as you would have with usual ATA cont. >>> >>>Myself, i am using 3ware now with FreeBSD since years.. only can report >>>good experience. I also had defekt controllers from the old 6000series >>>replaced with new 7500 series without loosing any data. >>> >>>Greetings, >>> >>>Stephan Fiebrandt >>> >>> >>> >>ALright. >>Well, won't be using raid. Forgot to mention that. >>So feel free to suggest cheaper cards without raid :) >> >> >>-- >> >>Sebastian Holmqvist >>Webprogrammer / HL2 modder >>http://cae.hl2files.com >> >> >> > >Nobody? > > If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). I've seen cards starting at 10$. Almost all low-cost cards have this chip series, meanwhile on 5.3 it should work now without any problems. The WRITE_DMA issues should be solved and commited to 5.3. Have also a look at the 5.3 hardware list: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#DISK. Best regards, Stephan Fiebrandt