Sata controller headache / good and cheap sata controller?

[Paul Bliss]

Thanks for the reply, Richard.

Finding a passable sata controller has been very frustrating. I at first 
had a Silicon Images controller which my first round of research indicated 
would be ok, but later found more info that reported some bad behavior 
(after the machine was being depended upon, of course)
  Then I switched to this Promise FastTrak tx2300, which again, people were 
saying some good things about. Ugh.

So does anyone know of a cheap SATA controller (Raid is unimportant) that 
will work well with FreeBSD 6.1?

Thanks for reading and helping.

-Paul Bliss

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Rich Wales wrote:

> Paul Bliss wrote:
>
>> I'm running 6.1 RELEASE and I've been having very annoying crashes
>> that I think are related to my SATA Controller.  I'm using the
>> Promise FastTrak TX2300 controller with a Western Digital WD2500KS.
>
> I've been seeing the same kinds of errors with a Promise SATA300 TX4
> controller and a pair of Seagate 300GB SATA drives.
>
> Apparently, people have been having similar problems with SATA drives
> on Promise controllers for quite some time now, in both FreeBSD and
> Linux systems.  Lots of reports and requests for help, but no one so
> far has admitted to having a clue as to what is causing it.
>
>> I'm tempted to use atacontrol to change the mode . . . .
>
> Unfortunately, AFAIK, you can't change the mode on a SATA drive using
> "atacontrol".
>
> Rich Wales
> Palo Alto, CA, USA
> richw at richw.org
> http://www.richw.org
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