Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:17:36 +0100 From: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> Subject: Re: PCI-X SATA Card + Server Recommendation Message-ID: <200810281517.37226.groot@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0810261502011.4630@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> References: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0810260112010.4630@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <20081026125017.GA88016@icarus.home.lan> <Pine.OSX.4.64.0810261502011.4630@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
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[ re-visiting this thread ] On Sunday 26 October 2008, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > Stay away from this card. Jeremy, any specific reasons for that? Yes, it's a low-end piece of crap=20 consumer electronics, but as a straightforward 4-port SATA card it seems to= =20 do well enough. It's just part of ata(4) and one of the ones I've got has=20 been up for 395 days driving striped mirrored GEOMs under reasonable (but=20 certainly not high) load. > Will do. =A0Google was very unhelpful with finding info on Silicon Image = and > FreeBSD, so I thank you for that. Strange. They're supported out of the box in ata(4) now. The right search string would have been "sii 3124 driver freebsd" which tur= ns=20 up some of my older work on it, or=20 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Data&apropos=3D0&sektion=3D4&manp= ath=3DFreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=3Dhtml which will get you the ata(4) manpage which now lists 3124 and 3132. Again, this is a low end cheap-ass SATA card. Unlike the RTL 8139 it=20 doesn't "redefine the notion of low-end", but it seems to get the job done. =2D-=20 These are your friends - Adem GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot
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