Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/1/06, Ville Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
being quite fed up with the crappy Sil3512 SATA-controller on my
mainboard (write_dma timeouts, and just when I thought 6.0-release fixed
it, "setfeatures set transfer mode semaphore timeout"-messages is
filling my screens), I'm looking after good replacements. Browsing the
web and the mailing list archives, Promise cards have been praised. I
could get my hands on a SATAII150 TX2plus, anyone having good/bad
experiences with such a card?
After I patched my FreeBSD 5.4 server with the ata-mkIII patches my
FastTrak TX2300 worked fine. Those patches are in FreeBSD 6 now. I'm
not sure if the RAID rebuild stuff is working yet in FreeBSD 6, I have
not updated that system yet, but you can always rebuild the array from
the BIOS.
The Bad:
This card does not play nice with other RAID controllers, esp. cards
from other companies. This card would hang my server at POST if I had
my HighPoint SATA-II RAID 5 card installed. Dealing with Promise's
tech support dude was bad, very bad. On the other hand when I spoke
with one of HighPoint's tech's (5pm on a Friday) he was both friendly
and competent, about 5 minutes in we had the problem with the Promise
card solved.
I've experienced the "setfeatures..." problem with the TX2300, with 2
different FreeBSD versions: latest -CURRENT (after installing an updated
kernel, when beginning installworld, "setfeatures..." messages repeat
until a hard reboot), and an up-to-date -CURRENT userland with kernel
from December 8th 2005. (That setup worked until I got a system hang
trying to run glxgears with an ATI R300 card. Afterward, when bootup
got to the point of fs checking, "setfeatures..." ad infinitum again.)
So far, -CURRENT userland and kernel from December 8th are working OK,
but I haven't done anything to unduly stress the system.
Jud
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