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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 20:39:13 +0800
From: Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Looking for 4 port SATA (non RAID) controller
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On 6/7/05, Vladimir Konrad <v.konrad@lse.ac.uk> wrote:
> I am looking for a 4 port SATA PCI card which works with FreeBSD (5.4).
> I am planning to do the RAID in software.
> Do Promise TX4 cards work?

Promise SATA TX4 (PDC20318) is supported by ATA(4) driver.

If you need performance, also consider other components besides SATA
controller. For example typical desktop pc motherboards only have one
PCI bus connecting all slots. 4 SATA disk can easily top the 133MB/s
bandwidth of PCI 32bit/33Mhz. Under this situation it will not be
better even if you seperate disks onto two cards.

Jia-Shiun.