Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:31:55 +0330 From: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@gmail.com> To: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: orvilleg@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA to PCI cards Message-ID: <6d62f69a0708241301k3465264akd434157344a8a9e7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90708231618x4b7d783eh89ecd625d514d351@mail.gmail.com> References: <6d62f69a0708210309g3e064718i3df082974dce5bbc@mail.gmail.com> <BAY125-F30A7FD56FB93C8D26FACF6CCD50@phx.gbl> <6d62f69a0708222121j734ef186yc94bbb826030bbcb@mail.gmail.com> <539c60b90708231618x4b7d783eh89ecd625d514d351@mail.gmail.com>
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> >I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. > >$ uname -a > >FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 > >UTC 2007 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > i386 > > > >My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I > >searched the internet and found out that there are SATA to PCI cards > >for my situation. Is anyone using such cards? Will they cause any > >problem with FreeBSD 6.2? > > > >By the way, I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good SATA to PCI card to > >buy. > I've had a huge sata issue with my promise card since I added two need > sata3.0 disks to my two old sata1.5 disks. Turning off smartd seemed > to make it go away, however. Never had issues with a promise board > before. In the interim I bought a HiPoint, which appears to be the > cadillac of sub-$300 cards, but I've yet to tweak the drivers into a > functiona state. I also tried one of the $19 cards and was told by > this list that they have drivers and appear to work fine, but will > corrupt your data bigtime, crash unexpectedly, etc. Mine was a > rosewill card, but lots of vendors are using the $19 variants. As I explored the archives I came up with some posts reporting problems with Promise cards, mostly on CURRENT though. Looks like I should search a bit more. Thanks.
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