From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 11 21:58:29 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C90D16A417 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:58:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scode@hyperion.scode.org) Received: from hyperion.scode.org (cl-1361.ams-04.nl.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:960:2:550::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E77A13C465 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:58:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scode@hyperion.scode.org) Received: by hyperion.scode.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F416A2394AD; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:58:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:58:26 +0200 From: Peter Schuller To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071011215825.GA84601@hyperion.scode.org> References: <20071009195934.GA13187@outcold.yadt.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071009195934.GA13187@outcold.yadt.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: Promise SATA controllers & FreeBSD-7 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: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:58:29 -0000 --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Alternatively, if anyone can recommend a cheap PCI SATA card which is > known to work well with FreeBSD-7, I might just end up buying that... There is the supermicro card based on Marvell 88SX6081. I'm using it on 7 so far with good results (in terms of stability anyway; performance is not that great but that could be due to other reasons; the hardware is not exactly high end otherwise). Someone recently mentioned something about the marvell chipset support being broken by recent changes, but I have yet to hear back what it would be. I haven't had issues so far, with 7 drives, out of which 6 are in a ZFS raidz2 and thus often accesses concurrently. The good part about the card is that you can get it for ~ 100 EUR and it has 8 SATA ports. I'll dig up the card model number if you wish, but it's in the archives, and google("supermicro marvell") should do the trick. --=20 / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller ' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHDpyBDNor2+l1i30RAp8qAJ4p/JwR553lbjhomshm49htBXLE4wCeM/35 H3uV1VmU4QmH2oAw/ghd+no= =xa1k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o--