Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:23:57 -0500 From: Mike Horwath <drechsau@Geeks.ORG> To: "Derrick T. Woolworth" <dwoolworth@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA300 Controllers Message-ID: <20060706012357.GB80086@Geeks.ORG> In-Reply-To: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com> References: <10fd06c60607051802jd9d6158ufd3406465cc64dfc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: > Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... That's okay, I am not on all and I'll create some bounces, I am sure. > Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? > I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any > luck. Using a MSI K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's > installation hangs as soon as it sees ad4. I've also tried using an > Adaptec 1210SA controller and had zero results. I've read that the > chipset on this controller is not very good - forces serialized > access to the controller's channels??? Nevertheless, I've got a K8N > Diamond motherboard on a workstation and I was able to at least > "start" the 6.1 installation. I have no idea if its stable. At > this point, I'd settle for just knowing "which" SATA300 controller > to use that will work successfully and "well" with FreeBSD 6.0 OR > 6.1. Another question, would I have more success installing 6.0 and > then upgrading the kernel and recompiling with a build-world? I am running 6.0 and 6.1 systems (-STABLE) with both ARECA 12xx cards and 3WARE/AMCC 9550SX cards. Neither are cheap, but they are doing the job and are in use in binary spoolers for news. > I'm currently trying to build a moderate large system with 4 presentation > servers, 2 database servers and one large storage system using NFS mapped to > ~1.2 terrabyte of SATA disks (4x Maxtor 500GB 7200 RPM disks w/RAID5 > config). Any suggestions? Up the # of spindles? :) -- Mike Horwath, reachable via drechsau@Geeks.ORG
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