On Jan 29, 2006, at 2:28 PM, 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
Any pointers would be most welcome.
David,
I can't tell you which Promise models do work, but here's something
that apparently doesn't under STABLE:
PROMISE SATA 150TX2PLUS 2-PORT SATA 1-PORT PATA PCI SUPPORT FOR NCQ
& TCQ HARD DRIVES
# dmesg
OpenBSD 3.8-stable (GENERIC) #0: Mon Jan 2 06:07:27 PST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 512KB L2
cache) 800 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,F
XSR
real mem = 402219008 (392792K)
avail mem = 359768064 (351336K)
using 4278 buffers containing 20213760 bytes (19740K) of memory
...
pciide0 at pci0 dev 4 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x10: ATA66,
channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to
compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DTLA-307015>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 14649MB, 30003120 sectors
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TSSTcorp, CD/DVDW TS-H552B, TS04>
SCSI0 5/cdrom removable
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
...
vendor "Promise", unknown product 0x3d75 (class mass storage subclass
miscellaneous, rev
0x02) at pci0 dev 11 function 0 not configured
The above card works like a champ in FreeBSD 5.4 (no value judgement,
just my experience).
I have a sil3112 based card from LSI (MegaRAID SATA 150-2) that works
in OpenBSD (but doesn't work reliably in FreeBSD). I had to special
order that card to get the LSI branded version, but Sil3112 based
cards are pretty common as cheap white box adapters. Mind, Sil3112
based cards are known widely to be crap, so I doubt anyone would give
it the gold seal of approval.
Good Luck,
Tony Del Porto
SysAdmin
USENIX Association
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