Re: SATA to PCI cards

2007-08-24 Thread Bahman M.
> >I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. > >$ uname -a > >FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 > >UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > i386 > > > >My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I > >searched the internet and fo

Re: SATA to PCI cards

2007-08-24 Thread Bahman M.
> > > Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We > >are > > > using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. > >Thanks for the hint. Would you tell me why did you choose Promise > >brand as it's expensive compared to the other brands? > > > >Bahman > > > > I chose

Re: SATA to PCI cards

2007-08-23 Thread Steve Franks
I've had a huge sata issue with my promise card since I added two need sata3.0 disks to my two old sata1.5 disks. Turning off smartd seemed to make it go away, however. Never had issues with a promise board before. In the interim I bought a HiPoint, which appears to be the cadillac of sub-$300 c

Re: SATA to PCI cards

2007-08-23 Thread Jack Stone
From: "Bahman M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA to PCI cards Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:51:52 +0330 > Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are > using this method to ev

Re: SATA to PCI cards

2007-08-22 Thread Bahman M.
> Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are > using this method to evolve older machines to SATA. Thanks for the hint. Would you tell me why did you choose Promise brand as it's expensive compared to the other brands? Bahman > >Hi all, > > > >I'm running FreeBS

RE: SATA to PCI cards

2007-08-22 Thread Jack Stone
From: "Bahman M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SATA to PCI cards Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:39:01 +0330 Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. $ uname -a FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/