Recommended SATA controllers

[Anton]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:06:44PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> 
> I have a fairly nice dual-xeon Supermicro 1U that needs some parts.  It 
> has onboard PATA and I'd like to throw some SATA drives in and get an SATA 
> backplane for it (machine has hot swap bays, it's missing any sort of 
> backplane).
> 
> I'll need to put some kind of SATA controller in there.  What can I buy 
> that's known to be very stable under 6.2?  I recall that in the past some 
> onboard SATA controllers were a little sketchy...

I had fought with some controllers for about 4 month, so I just can tell about my experience.
SIL3112 - doesnt work with more than 1 disk.
Promise FastTrak TX2300: in 5.*-branch it works worse than SIL3112, it reboot or freezing system. But! At 6.1 I really can sleep well.
It works, nice and quiet, for now:

atapci0: <Promise PDC20771 SATA300 controller> port 0xdc00-0xdc7f,0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xff8ff000-0xff8fffff,0xff8c0000-0xff8dffff irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci1

uname:  FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p11 #0: Wed Dec 20 21:48:32 MSK 2006

uptime:  1:43  up 151 days, 14:16, 5 users

Constantly read: 1,5Mbytes (10Mbps upload almost 24/7) for all this time. I dont go to 6.2 yet, so I'm not sure, how it will be on it.

That for cheap controllers. 
As for more price: 
amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID SATA 150-6D> Firmware 713N, BIOS G119, 64MB RAM
Works without *any* troubles 102 days from last reboot + 1,5 year until last reboot =) 6 drives, mysql... but price surely different =)

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Anton