Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?
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 :-) Is there a way to check this without physical access to the box? dmesg doesn't seem to contain this info; pciconf is hot helpful as well. If you know the make and model of the mainboard you could see if the specifications are online. Try the manufacturer's web site, or ask yahoo/google/... If the card you select isn't universal Voltage, you'll need to know if the slot is 5 Volt or 3.3 Volt. The keying is supposed to tell you, but some mainboards have a jumper to select the PCI Voltage, and I don't think moving the jumper changes the keying. :-) ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?
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 not quite getting what you mean -- can you clarify please? What he means is use controllers that do RAID in hardware, not software-raid cards like that Promise. /Eirik ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?
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 clarify please? What he means is use controllers that do RAID in hardware, not software-raid cards like that Promise. I don't need RAID, I just need an eSATA jack. -- Vlad Skvortsov, v...@73rus.com, http://vss.73rus.com ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?
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 3ware I'm not quite getting what you mean -- can you clarify please? What he means is use controllers that do RAID in hardware, not software-raid cards like that Promise. I don't need RAID, I just need an eSATA jack. Wouldn't drives connected via eSata saturate the PCI bus? OTOH for backup purposes that might be negletable... (I'm looking too for something to replace my SLR tapes. Hard drives today are much less expensive, faster (?) and reliable as much (?) as any tape). So yes, I would be also interested to hear about experiences with this or other eSATA controllers under 6-STABLE... Michael ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?
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 the PCI bus will accomomdate the card? The card description[1] mentions: # PCI 33/66MHz bus supports up to 266MB/sec burst data transfer rate (PCI 66MHz) # PCI 2.3 compliant Thanks! [1]: http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?segment=Non-RAID%20HBAsproduct_id=168 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). The physical slot can be either a 32 or 64 bit one (if the latter the card only occupies the 1st half of it) - i.e any PCI slot. Having said that, Promise support in Freebsd is a little variable - I have not tried the later cards, but had no joy with a TX4000 in a Supermicro P3TDER, whereas a 3Ware 7506 worked no trouble at all. I would recommend getting a 3Ware SATA card (also they typically are a better card than the corresponding Promise). regards Mark ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?
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 ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?
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 please? -- Vlad Skvortsov, v...@73rus.com, http://vss.73rus.com ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
