I which case, has anyone had any good experiences with SATA cards on a 5501. I want to have a minimum of 4 SATA ports, hardware RAID is not a requirement (but I would not turn it down!)
cheers, rhys 2008/12/16 Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]>: > In message > <98c005e13f5c664f869f1e6b0766301e0308c...@wp201e001.au.oceania.intra > net>, "Rhys Frederick" writes: >>Hi all, >> >>Has anyone had any experience using a Promise TX4 Sata card in the >>5501's PCI slot? I'm looking to connect a bunch of SATA drives to a >>5501. I realise the system is going to be limited by the 33Mhz PCI bus >>but wondering if anyone hass used it successfully. I'll probably be >>running the system with FreeBSD (M0n0 1.3 based distro) and FreeBSD >>seems to have good support for the promise-based cards. > > It does not work for me. > > I belive the problem is that the PLL calibration code in the TX4's > bios-rom does not run. > > I have TX4 card waiting for Soren whenever he cares to pick it up. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
