Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote: >> Some quick questions: >> >> 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? > > They suck. > They are horrible. > They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after > you add in all the aggravation they provide. > > Don't waste your time on them. Buy a real SATA > controller. (disclaimer: I am only commenting on > their SATA controllers) > >> I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead >> but was planning to use that elsewhere. > > Unfortunately I don't know enough to comment on other > alternatives. I dumped my SiI3112 SATA controller > and bought a real controller as made by Promise, but > there are probably a number of other good options.
Well, the HPT controller is not what I'd call *real* RAID either but it's lying around so I'll give it a try. >> 2) Would upgrading to something newer than 5.4-RELEASE >> help with this issue? > > It will probably help. That doesn't mean you will have > a reliable controller, it just means that 6.x includes > more work-arounds for the myriad bugs in these super- > cheap controllers. Some of these work-arounds result > in performance penalties. > > Just my opinion, of course... YMMV. Thanks. Your comments are appreciated. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
