From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 24 20:01:57 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 76C7216A417 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:01:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.movaqar@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3423813C478 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:01:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.movaqar@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so562023nzf for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:01:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bbW98yFtNfY6j6nV5KRwodqnI/MGuOR9W7cOMPr7mLbx8Cq5e/vXMgHbD2uTVmFchklbm2/ry1cBpHMTROHT60ezQ9UeDdPUawherAgJU22O2Jz7lVxE4U3mnXbUmsNW21LE2okekNHDjOGD13L+Cm+QTJAiEA43rg419XwxWOM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aPfzCSgHFvCGE5jSqXu5iVKBQCVFwnW2/yCFbpwG5GWLGTPpUnw/2FXiDiYhnaKAeBWGw/YiBmz8HD7LM1Byewdtc3X4FMPMkxJBHzfpxNNf4Sm2iNnKgPxDaxlkC5+1HR2LEqf8mWZFF4jlhyQ6TDWxAwFA1DtZDUGpNU6kyec= Received: by 10.114.154.1 with SMTP id b1mr101261wae.1187985715454; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.132.13 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6d62f69a0708241301k3465264akd434157344a8a9e7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:31:55 +0330 From: "Bahman M." To: "Steve Franks" In-Reply-To: <539c60b90708231618x4b7d783eh89ecd625d514d351@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> <539c60b90708231618x4b7d783eh89ecd625d514d351@mail.gmail.com> 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: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:01:57 -0000 > >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. > 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. As I explored the archives I came up with some posts reporting problems with Promise cards, mostly on CURRENT though. Looks like I should search a bit more. Thanks.