Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:41:21 -0400 From: Rob <r17fbsd@xxiii.com> To: Christopher Key <cjk32@cam.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec AAR-1220SA / AAR-1430SA Message-ID: <46A8A481.6070705@xxiii.com> In-Reply-To: <46A8710F.9010404@cam.ac.uk> References: <46A8710F.9010404@cam.ac.uk>
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Christopher Key wrote: > I'm trying to establish whether I can expect the Adaptec AAR-1220SA or > AAR-1430SA SATA cards to work with 6.2. They're not on the list of > supported hardware, which does include a lot of the other Adaptec Some (maybe all?) of the Adaptec SATA cards used a Silicon Image "SiI" chipset, and were completely flaky unreliable junk under FBSD (the "DMA timeout" error mentioned previously.) I think the ata developer gave up on them, thus their exclusion from the hardware list. Check Adaptec's specs and see if you can find the chip set used. -RW
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