Which Sata-controller card?

[Stephan Fiebrandt]

Sebastian Holmqvist wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:44:12 +0100, Sebastian Holmqvist
><sebastian.holmqvist at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:38:35 +0100, Stephan Fiebrandt <bsd at kuehlbox.de> wrote:
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>>>Sebastian Holmqvist wrote:
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>>>>Had some bad experience with my previous one: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus,
>>>>so I would like some tips.
>>>>Two harddrives will be attached for now, maybe more later.
>>>>Alot of data transfer.
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>>>>I have an 5.3-can running.
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>>>3ware SATA controller cards. These are "true" RAID controller cards
>>>instead of the tons of "ata" controllers with bios extentions witch are
>>>nothing else than a "softwareraid". 3ware cont. also preserve your CPU
>>>from high load as you would have with usual ATA cont.
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>>>Myself, i am using 3ware now with FreeBSD since years.. only can report
>>>good experience. I also had defekt controllers from the old 6000series
>>>replaced with new 7500 series without loosing any data.
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>>>Greetings,
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>>>Stephan Fiebrandt
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>>ALright.
>>Well, won't be using raid. Forgot to mention that.
>>So feel free to suggest cheaper cards without raid :)
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>>Sebastian Holmqvist
>>Webprogrammer / HL2 modder
>>http://cae.hl2files.com
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>Nobody?
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If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, all 
you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). I've 
seen cards starting at 10$. Almost all low-cost cards have this chip 
series, meanwhile on 5.3 it should work now without any problems. The 
WRITE_DMA issues should be solved and commited to 5.3.

Have also a look at the 5.3 hardware list: 
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#DISK.


Best regards,

Stephan Fiebrandt