Which PCI SATA controller?

[Vinny Abello]

3Ware cards will work in a 32 bit PCI slot. They typically support 
both 32 bit and 64 bit slots. I researched this before I bought one. 
Actually, there are benchmark results out there comparing the 
difference of a 32 bit vs 64 bit PCI slot.

Just be sure you have a motherboard that is known to play nice with 
them. I had one once with a motherboard and it ran 1/10th the speed 
of my onboard Si3112A in any operating system (FreeBSD, Linux, 
Windows XP). 3Ware had little explanation after I contacted them 
other than a board incompatibility (this was an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe). 
I sold the card to someone whom it worked much better for. Still 
can't run FreeBSD on my home system as a result as I'm doing RAID 0 
on some Raptor drives and want to dual boot with Windows... Next time 
I replace my hardware I'll look into something a little more FreeBSD friendly.

At 03:58 PM 2/20/2006, hank at yerpso.net wrote:
>Sorry ... just to clarify, this would be running 6.0 and it needs to be
>a 32bit card ... so as awesome as 3ware cards might be, it does me
>little good ...
>
>On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:05:12PM -0600, Hank Marquardt wrote:
> > So I'm having similar issues to others with gmirror and SATA throwing
> > DMA WRITE failures under load ... In my searching I"ve found a few
> > references to the Sil3112 chipset being an issue and it's what's in my
> > cheapy Adaptec card ...
> >
> > So if I want to proceed, what is a good PCI SATA controller?
> >
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