Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:25:46 +0800 From: "Jia-Shiun Li" <jiashiun@gmail.com> To: "Paul Bliss" <pbliss@mechno.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> Subject: Re: Sata controller headache / good and cheap sata controller? Message-ID: <1d6d20bc0610130525m5b6fff08k55b6c0ffdb597cf6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0610031156270.13502@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> <50606.82.69.13.6.1159887021.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.64.0610031156270.13502@helix.fantasyland.com>
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Paul, I suppose you are looking for PCI cards since these days mainboards with pci-e slots also have many sata ports on them. So JMicron does not apply here. You may want to try Promise cards. Since almost all chipsets now have built-in sata ports, it is getting harder to find various cheap add-on cards on market to choose from. Jia-Shiun. 2006/10/3, Paul Bliss <pbliss@mechno.com>: > I'll keep an eye open for a 3ware deal. I'm really shooting for around $50 > (3 pence in uk)if i can. For an ok sata controller for a single sata > drive, do you think I'm nuts? > > I was also thinking about just scrubbing it and getting an IDE. > Grrr. > > Thanks for the help though! > -Paul > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Dominic Marks wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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