Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:39:45 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <20100308003945.GA90714@voi.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <20100307022630.GA30517@icarus.home.lan> References: <147432021003051648x1a1417dfp3c778922ea2c571f@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea1003051718r241ac3e9w6ceb37bde0128b43@mail.gmail.com> <20100306180029.GA99452@voi.aagh.net> <5EAE9AE93E2D4232B65D2B7D22874CF2@multiplay.co.uk> <20100307012813.GA23944@voi.aagh.net> <20100307022630.GA30517@icarus.home.lan>
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* Jeremy Chadwick (freebsd@jdc.parodius.com) wrote:
> It's been mentioned in the past that for "simple" SATA expansion cards,
> a good/affordable choice at this point are cards using the Silicon Image
> 3124/3132/3531 chips (driven by the siis(4) driver). Avoid the 3112.
>
> The reason I say that (despite not having any experience with them) is
> there's active development on that driver by mav@, and SI is apparently
> fairly forthcoming with docs/quirks.
That's interesting, thanks. I'll see if I can find any.
> I personally stick solely to on-board SATA driven by Intel controllers
> (ICH7/9/10 or ESB), but if I had to get an expansion card, at this point
> I'd probably go the SI 3124 route.
Yes, I'm planning on replacing my dual Opteron with a single-socket Xeon
for more memory/CPU; it has 6 on-board AHCI interfaces, and I guess a
simple two port card would do for the rest.
--
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
http://hur.st/
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