hardware for home use large storage

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote:

DL> Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
DL> > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
DL> > 
DL> > DM> other parts are regular SocketAM2+ motherboard, Athlon X4, 8G ram, DM>
DL> > FreeBSD/amd64
DL> > 
DL> > well, not exactly "regular" - it's ASUS M2N-LR-SATA with 10 SATA channels,
DL> > but I suppose there are comparable in "workstation" mobo market now...
DL> 
DL> 10 SATA channels?  Newegg claims only 6:

You refer to regular M2N-LR, M2N-LR-SATA contains additional 4-channel 
Marvell chip: 

marck at moose:~> grep '^atapci.*: <' /var/run/dmesg.boot
atapci0: <nVidia nForce MCP55 UDMA133 controller> port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 4.0 on pci0
atapci1: <nVidia nForce MCP55 SATA300 controller> port 
0xc400-0xc407,0xc080-0xc083,0xc000-0xc007,0xbc00-0xbc03,0xb880-0xb88f mem 
0xef9bd000-0xef9bdfff irq 21 at device 5.0 on pci0
atapci2: <nVidia nForce MCP55 SATA300 controller> port 
0xb800-0xb807,0xb480-0xb483,0xb400-0xb407,0xb080-0xb083,0xb000-0xb00f mem 
0xef9bc000-0xef9bcfff irq 22 at device 5.1 on pci0
atapci3: <nVidia nForce MCP55 SATA300 controller> port 
0xac00-0xac07,0xa880-0xa883,0xa800-0xa807,0xa480-0xa483,0xa400-0xa40f mem 
0xef9b3000-0xef9b3fff irq 23 at device 5.2 on pci0
atapci4: <Adaptec 1420SA SATA300 controller> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 
0xefd00000-0xefdfffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
atapci5: <Marvell 88SX6041 SATA300 controller> port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 
0xefb00000-0xefbfffff irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci3

(atapci4 is now used for 1-disk Promise enclosure; I tried to use SiL card to 
use eSATA port native, but it failed to initialize there, so I use simple 
SATA-eSATA bracket to use eSATA capabilities to this Eternal Beast [tm] ;-P)


 -- Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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