Sata controller headache / good and cheap sata controller?

[Paul Bliss]

I'll keep an eye open for a 3ware deal. I'm really shooting for around $50 
(3 pence in uk)if i can. For an ok sata controller for a single sata 
drive, do you think I'm nuts?

I was also thinking about just scrubbing it and getting an IDE.
Grrr.

Thanks for the help though!
-Paul

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Dominic Marks wrote:

> Paul Bliss wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I only use 3ware cards now. I had similar experiences to you. You can
> get them pretty cheap now, at least here in the UK. I've used the 8000
> and 9000 series and had not a peep of a problem. I don't use RAID
> features either by the way.
>
> Dominic
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