Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

[Peter Schuller]

>> WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=<a number>
> 
> please post dmesg!

http://distfiles.scode.org/mlref/freebsd-dmesg-promise-tx4-7current.tx

> Be aware that some disk drives do the wrong thing.  Western Digital desktop
> disks, for example, don't simply remap a sector when they find a bad one,
> they sit there scrubbing forever trying to reread the data.  WD calls this
> a "feature" and their server-quality WD disks that cost more don't do this.
> It makes use of these disks impossible in a raid array.  Seagates and
> Maxtor desktop drives to my knowledge don't do this.

This was Seagate. I have not investigated whether I can trigger it as
easily with the Maxtor.

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/ Peter Schuller

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