> Still looking encouraging with 7 drives plugged in. I have had a couple
> of issues that may or may not have anything to do with the controller
> support. I will send an update in a few days or so when I know more.
So it's been a while now and though I had a couple of weird "pauses"
(console wor
> I'm definitely interested in hearing your results.
Still looking encouraging with 7 drives plugged in. I have had a couple
of issues that may or may not have anything to do with the controller
support. I will send an update in a few days or so when I know more.
> Also, what is the
> model of th
> > If I use up a slot, I'd like at least 4 ports and NCQ.
> > If FreeBSD doesn't have NCQ support yet I might just get a
> > USB or FW to SATA adapter or two and wait for NCQ.
>
> NCQ is nice but I don't *really* care. I just want something that works
> at all :) Of course I would want NCQ if it
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:24:34PM +0200, Peter Schuller wrote:
> > My main candidate is the AOC-SAT2-MV8. Can anyone offer input on the
> > stability of this card in FreeBSD? It would be perfect because it is
> > priced very well.
>
> I ended up getting an AOC-SAT2-MV8. Preliminary results are en
> My main candidate is the AOC-SAT2-MV8. Can anyone offer input on the
> stability of this card in FreeBSD? It would be perfect because it is
> priced very well.
I ended up getting an AOC-SAT2-MV8. Preliminary results are encouraging
but I have not yet run with it for that long... I'll try to reme
> Are you seeing this same problem on both the Promise and the Silicon
> Image?
No; with the Silicon Image I am getting the timeouts that "everyone"
else is getting (google("freebsd sil3112 timeout").
> Have you tried a different brand of disk? Some combinations of
> controller and disk don't wo
>> WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=
>
> please post dmesg!
http://distfiles.scode.org/mlref/freebsd-dmesg-promise-tx4-7current.tx
> Be aware that some disk drives do the wrong thing. Western Digital desktop
> disks, for example, don't simply remap a sector when they
> after spending time and money on several Promise and Sillicon Image
> based cards that don't work properly,
> WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=
...
> I have tried several different SATA cables (since in other contexts
> with other controllers these messages were suppo
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Schuller
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:25 PM
> To: Peter Schuller; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations
>
>
> Promise are supposed to be one of the better makes when it comes to
> documentation and open source support,
Yes, that was my impression prior to purchasing the two TX4:s.
> what problems are you seeing?
I can easily (dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=$((1024*1024)) count=500)
trigger within a f
* Peter Schuller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> after spending time and money on several Promise and Sillicon Image
> based cards that don't work properly, I am still in desperate need of a
> stable SATA controller.
Promise are supposed to be one of the better makes when it comes to
documentation a
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