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X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:35:43 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFB00EC361EB9741C2944583D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I used this card for my personal ZFS NAS (2 cards, 15 disks + 1 SSD). http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm Frankly speaking, this card will work 99% of the time. But it has a few quirks : - Sometimes, I've had a port drop because maybe of a broken/dying disk. The port would NOT recover unless I cold rebooted the server. And a port not recovering means, even the BIOS option ROM programming won't find it. Quite annoying as one could guess. - I could panic a system by removing a drive (back in the 8.1-RELEASE days) because of thread locking/sleeping issues. - I don't know what is to blame for that but : - I had more than once odd queue issues and disks flapping. Not really a problem with ZFS but VERY irritating nonetheless. - I even had a whole controller drop on me once. Nothing a reboot/zpool scrub couldn't fix (with NO corruption to boot!) but still... - It really, REALLY doesn't play nice with other cards. I tried migrating progressively to mpt(4) cards, with a one by one switch, only to experience stray NMIs and pretty ugly kernel panics. It turned out having a "pure" system with two f the same kind (mind, I was not pairing PCI-X and PCIe, this was in every case pure PCI-X setups) did wonders for stability. It's probably fairly decent for most home purposes (my main use), but I'd advise against it in any serious environment. Cheers, On 04/04/2012 10:52 PM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > Hello, > > I'm going to purchase a PCI-X SATA controller card for an NFS server. > Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 looks good with it's 8 SATA connectors. > > Before purchasing, and as my last inquiry, I wanted to make sure that > this particular card is well-supported by FreeBSD. > > According to what I've seen in the list archives, it seems to work (wit= h > occasional issues). Is there anything else to keep in mind? > > Best regards, > > Moritz > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" --=20 Stephane LAPIE, EPITA SRS, Promo 2005 "Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them." --MegaTokyo --------------enigFB00EC361EB9741C2944583D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk98Wd8ACgkQ24Ql8u6TF2PlxgCffAxro/GTvWbkbEr2O8x5gSkw erYAoMTqd4sOguT0ExL6mWONrAPCDZ6y =w7U8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFB00EC361EB9741C2944583D--