I am personally using a setup with two of these cards, they usually work fine but you have to pay attention to the following quirks : - If you have a dead disk, and end up having to replace it, sometimes the port just stops answering, and even a hot reboot with BIOS port reinitialization won't fix the problem. As far as my experience goes, I had to do a complete cold reboot to recover the port. - The optional BIOS ROMs don't play nice with other extension cards you might have on a busy system. You might want to disable them and leave the disk initialization to FreeBSD.
Given the first very, very annoying quirk in case of disk replacement, I am myself looking for other cards if any better candidates would exist. On 11/08/2010 09:26 AM, Douglas K. Rand wrote: > And I just noticed on the Newegg.com photos of the AOC-SAT2-MV8 that > for disk activity there doesn't seem to be a ground pin for each disk, > just one common ground pin. Which, for me at least, sucks because all > of the disk activity LEDs in my chassis have their own ground wire and > are terminated in duplex headers, not the split headers. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- Stephane LAPIE, EPITA SRS, Promo 2005 "Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them." --MegaTokyo
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