On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:28:13AM +0000, Thomas Hurst wrote: > * Steven Hartland (kill...@multiplay.co.uk) wrote: > > > If that's a supermicro then em3 is usually the IPMI shared card so perhaps > > that's the cause? > > No, it's a Tyan K8WE: > > http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/thunderk8we.html > > With a quad port Intel NIC in one of the 133MHz PCI-X slots. There's a > Supermicro Marvell 8x SATA card in another slot that's been experiencing > ZFS CKSUM errors since updating to 8 too, which is slightly suspicious. > > Would like to replace the SATA card with a nice simple AHCI board. > Sadly nobody seems to make them.
It's been mentioned in the past that for "simple" SATA expansion cards, a good/affordable choice at this point are cards using the Silicon Image 3124/3132/3531 chips (driven by the siis(4) driver). Avoid the 3112. The reason I say that (despite not having any experience with them) is there's active development on that driver by mav@, and SI is apparently fairly forthcoming with docs/quirks. Otherwise Areca cards are a good choice, but are $$$. I personally stick solely to on-board SATA driven by Intel controllers (ICH7/9/10 or ESB), but if I had to get an expansion card, at this point I'd probably go the SI 3124 route. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
