Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 01:56:09 +0400 From: Anton <freebsd@narr.spb.ru> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended SATA controllers Message-ID: <20070521215609.GA28721@narr.rts.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0705181803340.365@gee5.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> References: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0705181803340.365@gee5.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
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On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:06:44PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > I have a fairly nice dual-xeon Supermicro 1U that needs some parts. It > has onboard PATA and I'd like to throw some SATA drives in and get an SATA > backplane for it (machine has hot swap bays, it's missing any sort of > backplane). > > I'll need to put some kind of SATA controller in there. What can I buy > that's known to be very stable under 6.2? I recall that in the past some > onboard SATA controllers were a little sketchy... I had fought with some controllers for about 4 month, so I just can tell about my experience. SIL3112 - doesnt work with more than 1 disk. Promise FastTrak TX2300: in 5.*-branch it works worse than SIL3112, it reboot or freezing system. But! At 6.1 I really can sleep well. It works, nice and quiet, for now: atapci0: <Promise PDC20771 SATA300 controller> port 0xdc00-0xdc7f,0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xff8ff000-0xff8fffff,0xff8c0000-0xff8dffff irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci1 uname: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p11 #0: Wed Dec 20 21:48:32 MSK 2006 uptime: 1:43 up 151 days, 14:16, 5 users Constantly read: 1,5Mbytes (10Mbps upload almost 24/7) for all this time. I dont go to 6.2 yet, so I'm not sure, how it will be on it. That for cheap controllers. As for more price: amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID SATA 150-6D> Firmware 713N, BIOS G119, 64MB RAM Works without *any* troubles 102 days from last reboot + 1,5 year until last reboot =) 6 drives, mysql... but price surely different =) -- Anton
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