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Date:      Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:34:57 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@sebster.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Cian Hughes <Ci@nHugh.es>
Subject:   Re: Stable SATA pci card for FreeBSD 6.x/7.0
Message-ID:  <20080821123457.GA99701@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:49:25AM +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:
> I was thinking of buying the Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI Controller. I've  
> searched on google, and I do see some negative posts on them in  
> combination with FreeBSD, however they all date back at least 2 years...
>
> Does anybody have positive/negative experiences using this card?

I have one of these cards (not currently in use; less stuff inside my
FreeBSD box at home the better), and never ran into any oddities.  That
was with 4 disks connected, each disk its own UFS2 filesystem.  ZFS
wasn't available back then.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
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