USB-3 PCI-Express cards, from conrad.com OK with FreeBSD-8.3 dev xhci

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi FreeBSD USB people,
Success report for a USB-3 PCI-Express card with FreeBSD-8.3 & device xhci.
The card seems to be an own brand or import + relabel by Conrad,
a German PC shop chain (they do mail order too, also in English URLs below).

With a Samsung Disc 2.5" 1.0 TB SATA HN-M101MBB (5400 RPM, 8MB 9.5mm)
USB-3 screwed metal enclosure) I've seen:
    78.3 Mbyte/s host=blak, USB3 dd no bs  reading from USB3 1T msdosfs
    81.1 Mbyte/s host=blak, USB3 dd bs=64k reading from USB3 1T msdosfs
(Of course raw USB3 spec. is higher: 4800 Mbit/s. USB2 480, USB1 12)

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USB-3 Box Label:
 Conrad 2 Port USB 3.0 PCI-Express conroller card
 Product Number 973583
 Up to 5 GBit/s. Up to 10x faster than USB2.0
 "Super Speed"
 chip set: NEC
 Windows 7 Compatible
On Board:
 On PCB:
  Front:
   D108-00D
  Back
   Conrad Model UB 108
 Big IC:
  D720200F1
  1124KU609
  Japan
 Small 8 pin IC (extremely hard to read) :
  TMELI025
  5F5128
  SSH
Description:
 A tiny board, comes also with an alternate shorter flange, low profile
 for shallow servers.  SATA power connector (15 pins, 5 of 15 are shorter).
 (My tower did not have a hole to insert flange plate at PCI Express position,
 I had to dis-assemble & hack one in, I hope other people have it easier).

 http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/973583/2-PORT-USB-30-PCI-EXPRESS-CONTROLLER
 29.95 Euro

 http://www.conrad.com/2-PORT-USB-3.0-PCI-EXPRESS-CONTROLLER.htm?websale7=conrad-int&pi=973583&Ctx={ver/7/ver}{st/3ec/st}{cmd/0/cmd}{m/websale/m}{s/conrad-int/s}{l/int/l}{sf/%3Cs1%3E973583%3C/s1%3E/sf}{p1/b622b51345af32c231a9eb1ed6f9777c/p1}{md5/40afaf9e2b957f34e600076f91df60b2/md5}
28.45 GBP

Cheaper in Germany as 1.24520 EU = 1 GBP  Exchange rate from http://xe.com  

Cheers,
Julian
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