From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 01:06:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E4A106564A for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:06:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom.hurst@clara.net) Received: from ita.aagh.net (ita.aagh.net [208.86.225.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A518FC12 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:06:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cpc1-hart9-2-0-cust900.11-3.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.30.3.133] helo=voi.aagh.net ident=mailnull) by ita.aagh.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1NoR0c-000K1h-UT; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:39:47 +0000 Received: from freaky by voi.aagh.net with local (Exim 4.71 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1NoR0b-000NxY-FM; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:39:45 +0000 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:39:45 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-ID: <20100308003945.GA90714@voi.aagh.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jeremy Chadwick , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <147432021003051648x1a1417dfp3c778922ea2c571f@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea1003051718r241ac3e9w6ceb37bde0128b43@mail.gmail.com> <20100306180029.GA99452@voi.aagh.net> <5EAE9AE93E2D4232B65D2B7D22874CF2@multiplay.co.uk> <20100307012813.GA23944@voi.aagh.net> <20100307022630.GA30517@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100307022630.GA30517@icarus.home.lan> Organization: Not much. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:06:15 -0000 * Jeremy Chadwick (freebsd@jdc.parodius.com) wrote: > It's been mentioned in the past that for "simple" SATA expansion cards, > a good/affordable choice at this point are cards using the Silicon Image > 3124/3132/3531 chips (driven by the siis(4) driver). Avoid the 3112. > > The reason I say that (despite not having any experience with them) is > there's active development on that driver by mav@, and SI is apparently > fairly forthcoming with docs/quirks. That's interesting, thanks. I'll see if I can find any. > I personally stick solely to on-board SATA driven by Intel controllers > (ICH7/9/10 or ESB), but if I had to get an expansion card, at this point > I'd probably go the SI 3124 route. Yes, I'm planning on replacing my dual Opteron with a single-socket Xeon for more memory/CPU; it has 6 on-board AHCI interfaces, and I guess a simple two port card would do for the rest. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/