Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 00:38:30 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: Ville Lundberg <freebsd@juiceless.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise SATAII150 TX2plus ok for 6.0? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0602032238k393407a0x9bab219f5592964b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43E0D226.3050406@juiceless.net> References: <43E0D226.3050406@juiceless.net>
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On 2/1/06, Ville Lundberg <freebsd@juiceless.net> wrote: > Hi, > > being quite fed up with the crappy Sil3512 SATA-controller on my > mainboard (write_dma timeouts, and just when I thought 6.0-release fixed > it, "setfeatures set transfer mode semaphore timeout"-messages is > filling my screens), I'm looking after good replacements. Browsing the > web and the mailing list archives, Promise cards have been praised. I > could get my hands on a SATAII150 TX2plus, anyone having good/bad > experiences with such a card? > After I patched my FreeBSD 5.4 server with the ata-mkIII patches my FastTrak TX2300 worked fine. Those patches are in FreeBSD 6 now. I'm not sure if the RAID rebuild stuff is working yet in FreeBSD 6, I have not updated that system yet, but you can always rebuild the array from the BIOS. The Bad: This card does not play nice with other RAID controllers, esp. cards from other companies. This card would hang my server at POST if I had my HighPoint SATA-II RAID 5 card installed. Dealing with Promise's tech support dude was bad, very bad. On the other hand when I spoke with one of HighPoint's tech's (5pm on a Friday) he was both friendly and competent, about 5 minutes in we had the problem with the Promise card solved.
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