From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 3 14:50:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE7016A403 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:50:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk (mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk [81.19.179.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C73F43D46 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:50:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54AD71146E; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:50:24 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk Received: from mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id p3uvHD4TO9J6; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:50:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk (unknown [192.168.100.1]) by mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6C411462; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:50:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227681729B; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:50:23 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at helenmarks.co.uk Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xet79WhNfZFq; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:50:22 +0100 (BST) Received: by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 80) id E9E901729A; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:50:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from 82-69-13-6.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.13.6]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user dom) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk with HTTP; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:50:21 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <50606.82.69.13.6.1159887021.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20061003053303.9249A3C36B@whodunit.richw.org> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:50:21 +0100 (BST) From: "Dominic Marks" To: "Paul Bliss" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Rich Wales , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sata controller headache / good and cheap sata controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:50:26 -0000 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