From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 23:18:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8057716A41B for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:18:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086A313C458 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:18:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so581238nfb for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:18:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=YHDJCAfymgqna8j5J4WGAF7RACAztErM18vEf2EKKbHMAbz/jfBUi4owovIK234GDVv2UAUl1lFVx1g4YgLORd7Jf/4WVAAzdJ2pGlE8+cXhESJAabbqLZHXnDLwX2ao55S/IywZu8zXudHaQ01nDOw69LfW2opj1F7WbtMpEgs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=iacbcerkxD80/VWgnrUymJxF4WMl4bM0tkhaEYMOIgWIhXyXL5SlbfcwBmp3e5pGPgDJvr3ipSMcXAeIn55ZBzStuF6kfpBXqiCv14Sv+4SD+TQTI2p0T/Qx3ZlJyRX6dhdiqnhw4hKQM438cxnY5oA/Q+QYTUa6it2PxhBJ1gE= Received: by 10.78.97.7 with SMTP id u7mr1516226hub.1187911130560; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.68.10 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539c60b90708231618x4b7d783eh89ecd625d514d351@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:18:50 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "Bahman M." In-Reply-To: <6d62f69a0708222121j734ef186yc94bbb826030bbcb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6d62f69a0708210309g3e064718i3df082974dce5bbc@mail.gmail.com> <6d62f69a0708222121j734ef186yc94bbb826030bbcb@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2825a616938cc1cd Cc: orvilleg@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA to PCI cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:18:52 -0000 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 $19 variants. Steve On 8/22/07, Bahman M. wrote: > > Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are > > using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. > Thanks for the hint. Would you tell me why did you choose Promise > brand as it's expensive compared to the other brands? > > Bahman > > > > >Hi all, > > > > > >I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. > > >$ 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. > > > > > >Thanks in advance, > > >Bahman > > > > Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are > > using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. > > > > HTH.... > > > > Jack > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to > > win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089