Sata controller headache / good and cheap sata controller?

[Jia-Shiun Li]

Paul,

I suppose you are looking for PCI cards since these days mainboards
with pci-e slots also have many sata ports on them. So JMicron does
not apply here. You may want to try Promise cards.

Since almost all chipsets now have built-in sata ports, it is getting
harder to find various cheap add-on cards on market to choose from.

Jia-Shiun.

2006/10/3, Paul Bliss <pbliss at mechno.com>:
> 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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