Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:18:50 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@gmail.com> Cc: orvilleg@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA to PCI cards Message-ID: <539c60b90708231618x4b7d783eh89ecd625d514d351@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6d62f69a0708222121j734ef186yc94bbb826030bbcb@mail.gmail.com> References: <6d62f69a0708210309g3e064718i3df082974dce5bbc@mail.gmail.com> <BAY125-F30A7FD56FB93C8D26FACF6CCD50@phx.gbl> <6d62f69a0708222121j734ef186yc94bbb826030bbcb@mail.gmail.com>
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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 $19 variants. Steve On 8/22/07, Bahman M. <b.movaqar@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are > > using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. > Thanks for the hint. Would you tell me why did you choose Promise > brand as it's expensive compared to the other brands? > > Bahman > > > > >Hi all, > > > > > >I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. > > >$ 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
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