thanks for the reply. i guess i'll go for a pci card with a silicon
image chip then
On Nov 7, 2008, at 22:48, Anathae Townsend wrote:
I have had varied success with this card under openbsd. It would
nearly
always cause a hang with a timeout error to the primary console when
installed on an HP Vectra 400 machine. I currently have it running
in an
ASUS P4S800D-X with two 500 GB drives with no problems, however, if
I add
one or two additional drives, I start getting the freezing and the
time out
errors.
Promise Technology has a history of being... tight with its
intellectual
property and as such, you're not likely to get any work done on
getting
buggy implementations fixed under OpenBSD.
There was some work done to attempt to work around the bugs in the
hardware
under FreeBSD, however, I suspect that someone other than primary
OpenBSD
developers would have to port any fixes to OpenBSD.
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Behalf Of
Joseph A Borg
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 2:36 AM
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: SATA card = total freeze
sorry to ask again:
some weeks ago I installed a Promise 300sata TX4 pci card onto an
Asrock motherboard running OpenBSD 4.3
tried to copy a 31Gb file to stress test. The machine hung up after a
while and could only be switched off and re-started.
can anybody confirm that this pci card works properly with OpenBSD?
There are some year-old posts on kerneltrap regarding some strange
behaviour with this card on freebsd.
regards
