Rick C. Petty wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
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
Promise has a good relationship with FreeBSD, I would expect their
controllers to work pretty well.
I'm using a few "Promise PDC40718 SATA300 controller" with identical
SATA300 drives and it seems to work well. My only gripe is the channels
are misnumbered:
port #1 maps to channel 3
port #2 maps to channel 1
port #3 maps to channel 0
port #4 maps to channel 2
I had to use the serial numbers to make sure I was writing on the correct
drives, so that was annoying.
Actually its the channel numbering printed on the card thats flawed, it
doesn't match the physical channel numbers that the chip uses (and hence
ATA channel numbers).
I have no idea why they did that on some of their controllers, but I
suspect historical reasons as they older controllers had the physical
connectors in that order (3 1 0 2), but the guy that did the silkscreen
layout probably ordered them "nicely" at some point :)
-Søren
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