Re: HELP w/SATA addon controller

Chuck Swiger <[email protected]>
Jason White <[email protected]>

Thanks.

>  On Feb 23, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Jason White wrote:
>  >> I'm looking for a simple 2 port card that works with NetBSD.
>  >> I'm hoping someone can recommend some brand name models (I have
>  >> a hard time figuring out what chips are in some of these products).
>  >
>  >   The Silicon Image 3112 (two port) and 3114 (four port) cards are  
>  > supported.
>  >   Searching by chipset number or chipset name on newegg.com and  
>  > came up with
>  >   a couple, one of them being:
>  
>  Watch out for that chipset...it has some significant hardware  
>  problems which affect large data transfers and can result in data  
>  corruption unless certain workarounds are implemented.  These  
>  workarounds reduce performance...the SilI 3124 or later chipsets are  
>  better, but not great.
>  
>  3ware and Promise are likely to be more reliable SATA controllers,  
>  especially if you want to use them in RAID configurations.

Don't need RAID.  I didn't see Promise SATA in the PCI supported list,
what chip do they use?

Thanks,
Paul