Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:09:54 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> To: Anton - Valqk <lists@lozenetz.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller Message-ID: <20080312110954.GA22374@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <47D7B223.6080108@lozenetz.org> References: <47D7B223.6080108@lozenetz.org>
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:36:19PM +0200, Anton - Valqk wrote: > Hi there group, > I have a P 233MHZ machine running as rouer, > I have attached a second drive for a storage but the IDE controller on the > mother board is very old and slow (UDMA33). > The disk is new and have 16MB cache, but the IDE is very slow and have very > bad performace - about 1.3MB/s. > I want to attach a PCI PATA IDE controller (I'm running 6.3) that will be > rock solid. > can you please recommend me a good card? Many people have had good success (while within a limited budget) with PATA and SATA cards from Promise Technologies. For PATA: http://www.promise.com/product/pd_l3.asp?Product_Layer_ID=PRLA20060911012 For SATA: http://www.promise.com/product/pd_l3.asp?Product_Layer_ID=PRLA20060911010 Two things: 1) Their RAID controllers *also* do JBOD (non-RAID), which means you can use them as a standard non-RAID disks (they'll appear in FreeBSD as adX disks) 2) Their Ultra133 TX2 card works fine on 33MHz PCI bus machines; don't worry about the card being 66MHz, it will downthrottle correctly. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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