Re: SATA300 Controllers

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Scott Long wrote..
Wilko Bulte wrote:
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote..

Hello all,

Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists...

Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've
been
trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a
MSI
K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation hangs as soon as
it
sees ad4. I've also tried using an Adaptec 1210SA controller and had zero


Well, just as a datapoint this works fine for me:

wb@freebie ~: dmesg|grep -i Prom
atapci0: <Promise PDC20771 SATA300 controller> port
0xd480-0xd4ff,0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf7ff6000-0xf7ff6fff,0xf7fa0000-0xf7fbffff
irq 21 at device 13.0 on pci2
ar0: 238475MB <Promise Fasttrak RAID1> status: READY
wb@freebie ~: uname -a
FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed Jun 14
22:01:33 CEST 2006 root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBIE
i386


Promise has a good relationship with FreeBSD, I would expect their
controllers to work pretty well.

Yup. I cleared this TX2200 (IIRC) card with Soren first before I ordered
it. It only has SATA150 disks connected to it though, I do not own
SATA300 drives. All in all the whole thing works fine for me.

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