thank you so much for your valuable input. I've found personal experience to trump just about any other information, especially the 'official docs'.
I've decided to stick with PATA for now, knowing that it's stable, reliable and really not much slower than SATA for the drives I'm looking at. thanks, Dave On 1/31/06, Tony Del Porto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2006, at 2:28 PM, David Wilk wrote: > > > Howdy all, I was just wondering what SATA support was like in 3.8. > > Specifically, are there any promise controller add-in cards (as > > opposed to > > built-in to mobo) that anyone would recommend? Or, are things as > > they were > > in May of '05 when Theo was less than enthused with then-current SATA > > support: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd- > > misc&m=111390018104270&w=2 > > > > Any pointers would be most welcome. > > > > David, > > I can't tell you which Promise models do work, but here's something > that apparently doesn't under STABLE: > > PROMISE SATA 150TX2PLUS 2-PORT SATA 1-PORT PATA PCI SUPPORT FOR NCQ > & TCQ HARD DRIVES > > > # dmesg > OpenBSD 3.8-stable (GENERIC) #0: Mon Jan 2 06:07:27 PST 2006 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC > cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 512KB L2 > cache) 800 MHz > cpu0: > FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,F > XSR > real mem = 402219008 (392792K) > avail mem = 359768064 (351336K) > using 4278 buffers containing 20213760 bytes (19740K) of memory > ... > pciide0 at pci0 dev 4 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x10: ATA66, > channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to > compatibility > wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DTLA-307015> > wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 14649MB, 30003120 sectors > atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1 > scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets > cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TSSTcorp, CD/DVDW TS-H552B, TS04> > SCSI0 5/cdrom removable > wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 > cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 > pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) > ... > vendor "Promise", unknown product 0x3d75 (class mass storage subclass > miscellaneous, rev > 0x02) at pci0 dev 11 function 0 not configured > > The above card works like a champ in FreeBSD 5.4 (no value judgement, > just my experience). > > I have a sil3112 based card from LSI (MegaRAID SATA 150-2) that works > in OpenBSD (but doesn't work reliably in FreeBSD). I had to special > order that card to get the LSI branded version, but Sil3112 based > cards are pretty common as cheap white box adapters. Mind, Sil3112 > based cards are known widely to be crap, so I doubt anyone would give > it the gold seal of approval. > > Good Luck, > > Tony Del Porto > SysAdmin > USENIX Association > 2560 9th Street, Suite 215, Berkeley CA 94710 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.usenix.org | www.sage.org
