From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 12:34:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D07D1065673 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:34:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3929B8FC15 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:34:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 22A4A1CC0BE; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:34:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:34:57 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Sebastiaan van Erk Message-ID: <20080821123457.GA99701@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <48982B58.4000406@sebster.com> <48992532.9080503@yandex.ru> <489970CC.4000103@sebster.com> <20080806095748.GA52551@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080806101941.GA52952@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <48A2DD60.7090702@sebster.com> <20080814090521.GB27942@groll.co.za> <48A3FCF7.9030905@sebster.com> <8B25287C-7336-492C-B62E-CB319B8B5DBB@nHugh.es> <48AD1E05.1040502@sebster.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48AD1E05.1040502@sebster.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Cian Hughes Subject: Re: Stable SATA pci card for FreeBSD 6.x/7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:34:57 -0000 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. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |