Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:50:21 +0100 (BST) From: "Dominic Marks" <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> To: "Paul Bliss" <pbliss@mechno.com> Cc: Rich Wales <richw@richw.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sata controller headache / good and cheap sata controller? Message-ID: <50606.82.69.13.6.1159887021.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0610030932320.13502@helix.fantasyland.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0609280855160.1594@helix.fantasyland.com> <20061003053303.9249A3C36B@whodunit.richw.org> <Pine.BSF.4.64.0610030932320.13502@helix.fantasyland.com>
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Paul Bliss wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Richard. > > Finding a passable sata controller has been very frustrating. I at > first > had a Silicon Images controller which my first round of research > indicated > would be ok, but later found more info that reported some bad behavior > (after the machine was being depended upon, of course) > Then I switched to this Promise FastTrak tx2300, which again, people > were > saying some good things about. Ugh. > > So does anyone know of a cheap SATA controller (Raid is unimportant) > that > will work well with FreeBSD 6.1? I only use 3ware cards now. I had similar experiences to you. You can get them pretty cheap now, at least here in the UK. I've used the 8000 and 9000 series and had not a peep of a problem. I don't use RAID features either by the way. Dominic
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