SATA \\ Promise PDC20376 \\ Promise TX2

[James Tanis]

SIIG's SiI 3112, this is a plain vanilla card - no raid, works perfectly fine 
for me. I am using 5.1-current though, I do not think support for SIIG's 
cards were included in 5.1 release.

On Thursday 24 July 2003 05:33, madsen at vijit.com wrote:
> I'm trying to get a single SATA drive running on my computer (MSI K7N2
> Delta ILSR) which uses the Promise PDC20376.  If I don't configure the
> drive in an array, FreeBSD 5.1 can access the drive just fine, but
> Windoze XP Pro doesn't see it, and neither does any other bootable
> utility.  If I do configure it as a single "striped" drive in an array
> (there is no JBOD option according to MSI support), FreeBSD gets an
> "access error" when trying to do ANYTHING with the drive.  But of
> course, 'doze and everything else sees it just fine.
>
> And I can't seem to boot from the drive no matter what.  Yes, I've
> changed the boot devices in the BIOS, trying all "HDD-x" selections.
> It'll boot from my SCSI drive (FreeBSD), though. :-)
>
> I'm looking for a controller that will (1) handle a single SATA disk
> with no problems or hassles; (2) work with both 'doze and FreeBSD.  It
> looks like the Promise FastTrak S150 TX2 is supported by both and the
> specs say it does JBOD, so I'm thinking of that one.  However, all I can
> find is the TX2 __PLUS__ model, not the "plain" TX2.  Is that a problem
> for the FreeBSD [4.8,5.1] driver?
>
> Or, does anyone have any better suggestion on how I can best get an SATA
> drive working here?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave Madsen ---dcm
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