Thanks everyone for the great info. I'm not, in fact, interested in RAID support offered by the hardware, just plain-jane SATA.
I had found the hardware list for pciide, and attempted to match up actual product model numbers with the chipset numbers listed, but found very little in the way of useful information. I even contacted promise, but they haven't been a whole lot of help. In the absence of some sort of hardware matrix that would match these two numbers up, I was hoping the OpenBSD community might have some promise SATA cards that are known to work and would be able to provide the model numbers of those cards. I know none of the SATA II cards are supported, but I don't have any info on the first-gen of promise SATA cards. If anyone knows any specific model numbers that would really help out alot, thanks! or, if anyone has any specific recommendations for add-on SATA cards (promise or otherwise) I'd love to hear it. thanks! On 1/29/06, Jonathan Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:43:18PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > At 03:28 PM 1/29/2006 -0700, David Wilk wrote: > > >Howdy all, I was just wondering what SATA support was like in 3.8. > > >Specifically, are there any promise controller add-in cards (as opposed > to > > >built-in to mobo) that anyone would recommend? Or, are things as they > were > > >in May of '05 when Theo was less than enthused with then-current SATA > > >support: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111390018104270&w=2 > > > > A number of MBs support SATA (e.g. ASUS, which we have been using since > > 3.7), .. however, to my knowledge, Promise has never released anything > but > > fake driver-required devices which will not be supported. > > In terms of Promise SATA support any card incorporating a > PDC20318/PDC20319/PDC20371/PDC20375/PDC20376/PDC20377/PDC20378/PDC20379 > chip should work fine.
