Best USB PCI Card

[MC]

I saw accounts of the NEC uPD 720100 USB 2.0 controller making troubles
for the ehci driver last year this time.  Sounds like they may be fixed
now.  I will
try out the card see how it goes.

I just installed a qemu gentoo linux for the LVM2 "infinite disk" feature
and feed qemu the raw da0 ...  da3 USB2 drives for a userspace backup
system.  When archiving is done, I
just quit qemu and the disks can stay off for a week.

I didn't have much luck passing the USB2 device to qeum as a USB handoff.
But
it's not needed as qemu takes disk devices with the -hdb -hdc and -hdd
options

On 3/5/06, Markus Dolze <bsdfan at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
>
> > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> > Von: MC <rossiya at gmail.com>
> > An: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> > Betreff: Best USB PCI Card
> > Datum: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 18:13:22 -0800
> >
> > Hi I am shopping for a USB2 PCI card to support 4 or more USB hard
> drives.
> > I thought to
> > get a PCI card rather than an external USB2 hub, which splits the USB2
> > bandwidth.
> > Looking through the supported hardware of freebsd6.x there's a big list
> of
> > supported
> > devices, but none that match hardware vendor websites offhand.  I see
> for
> > example
> > the ALi 6+2 port USB 2.0 PCI Card with the ALi M573 chipset and VIA
> VT6212
> > 4+1
> > Port USB 2.0 PCI Controller Card with the VIA VT6212 chipset.  But these
> > don't match
> > anything on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html
> >
> > What are the best [most compatible trouble free] USB PCI cards?
>
> Hi,
>
> I would not use cards with ALi anymore. I got one and had problems with
> it.
> When doing high-speed transfers the card resets sometimes. The history of
> the windows driver lists a lot of problems fixed in the past.
>
> I have good experience with a card equipped with a NEC chip.
>
> Regards
> Markus
>