em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE

[Thomas Hurst]

* Jeremy Chadwick (freebsd at jdc.parodius.com) wrote:

> It's been mentioned in the past that for "simple" SATA expansion cards,
> a good/affordable choice at this point are cards using the Silicon Image
> 3124/3132/3531 chips (driven by the siis(4) driver).  Avoid the 3112.
> 
> The reason I say that (despite not having any experience with them) is
> there's active development on that driver by mav@, and SI is apparently
> fairly forthcoming with docs/quirks.

That's interesting, thanks.  I'll see if I can find any.

> I personally stick solely to on-board SATA driven by Intel controllers
> (ICH7/9/10 or ESB), but if I had to get an expansion card, at this point
> I'd probably go the SI 3124 route.

Yes, I'm planning on replacing my dual Opteron with a single-socket Xeon
for more memory/CPU; it has 6 on-board AHCI interfaces, and I guess a
simple two port card would do for the rest.

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Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
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