From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 13 12:32:35 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 98D2716A51B for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:32:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jiashiun@gmail.com) Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com (hu-out-0506.google.com [72.14.214.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A18843D66 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:32:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jiashiun@gmail.com) Received: by hu-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 34so437025hui for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:31:46 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=S3auOS6tQqijyoKQ2d5ZbzI4Cs0DRR3iTK8vtiSP6+AFLbbYFeuhr7Aus3H4gxyk3hBZlgCoDnQFPFqSjD5/zNrkPgu61rMPau4mQXZkpgkDN65gGsB2Vg4Gpg0fFoUpJaOsOq1yS8Q5yvkW8T+dvTsUpZ3i7Uu8ZKPhjcZ2J68= Received: by 10.78.185.7 with SMTP id i7mr3561462huf; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:25:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.184.9 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:25:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1d6d20bc0610130525m5b6fff08k55b6c0ffdb597cf6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:25:46 +0800 From: "Jia-Shiun Li" To: "Paul Bliss" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061003053303.9249A3C36B@whodunit.richw.org> <50606.82.69.13.6.1159887021.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dominic Marks 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: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:32:35 -0000 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 : > 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" >