PCI-X SATA Card + Server Recommendation

[Adriaan de Groot]

[ re-visiting this thread ]

On Sunday 26 October 2008, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > Stay away from this card.

Jeremy, any specific reasons for that? Yes, it's a low-end piece of crap 
consumer electronics, but as a straightforward 4-port SATA card it seems to 
do well enough. It's just part of ata(4) and one of the ones I've got has 
been up for 395 days driving striped mirrored GEOMs under reasonable (but 
certainly not high) load.

> Will do.  Google was very unhelpful with finding info on Silicon Image and
> FreeBSD, so I thank you for that.

Strange. They're supported out of the box in ata(4) now.

The right search string would have been "sii 3124 driver freebsd" which turns 
up some of my older work on it, or 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html

which will get you the ata(4) manpage which now lists 3124 and 3132.


Again, this is a low end cheap-ass SATA card. Unlike the RTL 8139 it 
doesn't "redefine the notion of low-end", but it seems to get the job done.

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