Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?

2009-01-06 Thread Dieter
Your motherboard needs to be PCI 2.2 or 2.3 complaint according to the manual (you need to tell us what the board is for us to help here). Most should be unless they are very old (later Pentium III Coppermine onwards should be ok). Thanks Mark -- that's exactly what I was asking for

Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?

2009-01-03 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Jan 2, 2009, at 19:38, Vlad Skvortsov wrote: Alex Keda wrote: I'm looking to buy a Promise SATA300 TX4302 (PCI-[e]SATA) card to use for external backups on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE system. Can anyone share their experiences with this one? Use Hardware Controllers - such as 3ware I'm

Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?

2009-01-03 Thread Vlad Skvortsov
Eirik Øverby wrote: I'm looking to buy a Promise SATA300 TX4302 (PCI-[e]SATA) card to use for external backups on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE system. Can anyone share their experiences with this one? Use Hardware Controllers - such as 3ware I'm not quite getting what you mean -- can you

Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?

2009-01-03 Thread M. Giegerich
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 15:17 -0800, Vlad Skvortsov wrote: Eirik Øverby wrote: I'm looking to buy a Promise SATA300 TX4302 (PCI-[e]SATA) card to use for external backups on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE system. Can anyone share their experiences with this one? Use Hardware Controllers - such as

Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?

2009-01-03 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Vlad Skvortsov wrote: Hi, I'm looking to buy a Promise SATA300 TX4302 (PCI-[e]SATA) card to use for external backups on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE system. Can anyone share their experiences with this one? Also, the box is a pretty old hardware; pardon my ignorance, what should I check to see if

Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?

2009-01-02 Thread Alex Keda
Vlad Skvortsov пишет: Hi, I'm looking to buy a Promise SATA300 TX4302 (PCI-[e]SATA) card to use for external backups on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE system. Can anyone share their experiences with this one? Use Hardware Controllers - such as 3ware ___

Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?

2009-01-02 Thread Vlad Skvortsov
Alex Keda wrote: I'm looking to buy a Promise SATA300 TX4302 (PCI-[e]SATA) card to use for external backups on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE system. Can anyone share their experiences with this one? Use Hardware Controllers - such as 3ware I'm not quite getting what you mean -- can you clarify