From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 13 13:21:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB9CD8D for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:21:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out5.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out5.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE7F8FC08 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:21:06 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhIFAIBqeVB8qhZ1/2dsb2JhbABFhSm6QoEIgiABAQQBOj8FCwsNATgUGDETh34Fu22RNmADlWuFUDWKLIMB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,580,1344182400"; d="scan'208";a="47511830" Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.phoenix) ([124.170.22.117]) by icp-osb-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 13 Oct 2012 21:21:03 +0800 Received: by smtp.phoenix (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BE51EFA5; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:21:02 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:21:02 +1100 From: andrew clarke To: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: SATA Controllers Message-ID: <20121013132102.GA51688@ozzmosis.com> References: <50DE4FB5-4123-4B83-9805-E817331490EE@lafn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50DE4FB5-4123-4B83-9805-E817331490EE@lafn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:21:08 -0000 On Tue 2012-10-09 09:25:34 UTC-0700, Doug Hardie (bc979@lafn.org) wrote: > Looking through the list of SATA Controllers available at Best Buy, I > don't find any of them listed on the 9.0 hardware page. I need a > couple cheap ones (for non-production systems). Does anyone have > recommendations? I've used a Promise 378 FastTrak SATA PCI controller card in the past. They don't seem easy to find any more, though. Certainly not new. There's a Promise S150 TX4 for US$15 on eBay which apparently is supported by FreeBSD. The controller chip is a PDC20319 which is listed in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/chipsets/ata-promise.c. Also a SATA300 TX2plus for the same price which is probably supported too. The seller's photo shows a PDC207xx controller chip - probably the PDC20771 which is also listed in ata-promise.c. Of course there's not much consumer demand for these types of cards any more, now that motherboards with four or more SATA sockets are common! Good luck :-)